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JUDAISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Judaism’s most sacred text, consisting of the first five books of the Jewish Bible.
A
Talmud
B
Torah
C
New Testament
D
Quran
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The most prominent meaning for Jews is that the Torah constitutes the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Pentateuch, ‘five books’ in Greek), traditionally thought to have been composed by Moses . These sacred texts are written on a scroll and kept in a synagogue.

Detailed explanation-2: -The five books making up the Torah are Be-reshit, Shemot, Va-yikra, Be-midbar and Devarim, which in the English Bible correspond to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jews believe that God dictated the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai 50 days after their exodus from Egyptian slavery. They believe that the Torah shows how God wants Jews to live. It contains 613 commandments and Jews refer to the ten best known of these as the ten 10 statements.

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