The legal codes and specific laws of the Bible.
While laws are found throughout the pentateuch (e.g., Genesis 9:3-4), there are three great legal collections:
- the Book of the Covenant = Exodus 21-23
- the Holiness Code = Leviticus 17-26
- the Deuteronomic Code = Deuteronomy 12-26
To these may be added as well the ten-commandments and the collection of laws found in Ezekiel 44-46.
The term torah refers to the five books of Moses ("Pentateuch"), although torah is also the generic term for biblical "law" or "instruction" which forms the basis of halakha in Judaism.
