Who Wrote the Pentateuch
Law was burnt. Ezra re-wrote it:
Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light. For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin. But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live. 2 Esdras 14:20-22
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The Law was found
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the bookto Shaphan who read it. 2 Kings 22:8.
The king went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD......Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 2 Kings 23:2,24
When they were bringing out the money which had been brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the LORD given by Moses. Hilkiah responded and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan. 2 Chronicles 34:14-15
Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord. The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book. 2 Chronicles 34:29-31.
And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had given to Israel. Then Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men, women and all who could listen with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning untilmidday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law. Ezra the scribe stood at a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam on his left hand. Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the peoplefor he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up. Then Ezra blessed the LORD the great God. And all the people answered, "Amen, Amen!" while lifting up their hands; then they bowed low and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground . Nehemiah 8:1-6.
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Genesis and Deuteronomy mentions the name of a City called Dan
When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. Genesis 14:14.
Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan. Deuteronomy 34:1
But the city of Dan did not exist until the time of Micah:
When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor. Joshua 19:47
The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there. They named it Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city used to be called Laish. There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh. Judges 18:28-31.
This is after the death of Joshua
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?” Judges 1:1
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Moses did not enter the promised land:
When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it. Deuteronomy 26:9
"So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime. Deuteronomy 27:2
Therefore he is not the writer of this:
Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession. Deuteronomy 2:12
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When the Pentateuch was written Canaanites and Perizzites were not in Canaan.
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Genesis 12:6.
And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. Genesis 13:7.
But these people where in Canaan even after the death of Joshua
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites? .... When Judah attacked, the Lord gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek. Judges 1:1,4.
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Jesus of Nazareth never mentioned in the Pentateuch
Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” (John 1:45 ESV)
Jesus states Moses wrote about Him:
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” (Luke 24:44 ESV)
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Moses mentioned eating of manna for 40 years.
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan. Exodus 16:35.
But by that time he was not alive.
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan. Joshua 5:10-12
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Deuteronomy said
Deuteronomy 21:34 – So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished
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The Law was 2 tablets written by God.
When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. Exodus 31:18.
Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened. Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. Exodus 32:14-16.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 2 Kings 8:9
God re-wrote them in 2 tablets
These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me. Deuteronomy 5:22.
At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.” So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now. Deuteronomy 10:1-4
The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.....”So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. Exodus 34:1,4.
Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD. Exodus 34:28-29.
Later on Moses re-wrote it.
After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD: Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you. Deuteronomy 31:24-26.
Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel..... Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!" Exodus 24:4,7.
Joshua also wrote it
There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on stones a copy of the law of Moses. the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel. Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law. was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them. Joshua 8:32-35.
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When God instructed Moses to write these words, which words did he meant?
So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel. Deuteronomy 31:9.
Q. Which Law?
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Moses wrote this verse in the desert where there were no gates
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Exodus 20:10. KJV
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God's name Jehovah was not known before Moses
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. Exodus 6:3
But Abrham named a place Jehovah-Jireh
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh. As it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided. Genesis 22:14.
And he called upon the name of Jehovah
And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah. Genesis 12:8. ASV
unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah. Genesis 13:4. ASV
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. Genesis 14:22
And Moses' mother was named Jochebed
Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram's life was one hundred and thirty-seven years. Exodus 6:20
The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam. Numbers 26:59.
And grandson of Benjamin is Abiah
The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. 1 Chronicles 7:8.
Was Ave aware of the name Jehovah?
And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah. Genesis 4:1 ASV
Some Bible Apologists said Exodus 6:3 is in the form of question therefore it should be read as follows:
by My name Jehovah [YHWH] was I not known to them? Am not I, the Almighty God, who pledged My honor for the fulfillment of the covenant, also the self-existent God who lives to accomplish it? Rest assured, therefore, that I shall bring it to pass… Exodus 6:3-5
These are examples of interrogative statements in the Bible:
waYomer y'hwäh ëläyw miy säm Peh läädäm ô miy-yäsûm iLëm ô chërësh ô fiQëªch ô iûër hálo änokhiy y'hwäh.
(And Yähwè said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I Yähwè). Exodus 4:11.
waYichar-af y'hwäh B'mosheh waYomer hálo aháron ächiykhä haLëwiy yäda'Tiy Kiy-daBër y'daBër hû w'gam hiNëh-hû yotzë liq'rätekhä w'räákhä w'sämach B'liBô
(And the anger of Yähwè was kindled against Möšè, and he said, [Is] not ´Ahárön the Lëwî thy brother? I know that he can speak y well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.) Exodus 4:14.
hálo-zeh haDävär ásher DiBar'nû ëleykhä v'mitz'rayim lëmor chádal miMeNû w'naav'däh et-mitz'räyim Kiy †ôv länû ávod et-mitz'rayim miMutënû BaMid'Bär.
([Is] not this the word that we did tell thee in Mirayim, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Mirîm? For [it had been] better for us to serve the Mirîm, than that we should die in the wilderness.) Exodus 14:12.
ûvaMeh yiûäda ëfô Kiy-mätzätiy chën B'ëyneykhä ániy w'aMekhä hálô B'lekh'T'khä iMänû w'nif'lëynû ániy w'aM'khä miKäl-hääm ásher al-P'nëy häádämäh.
For wherein shall it be known here that I xand thy people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou goest y with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth. (Exodus 33:16)
waYaan Bil'äm waYomer el-Bäläq hálo DiBar'Tiy ëleykhä lëmor Kolásher-y'daBër y'hwäh otô eéseh.
(But Bil`äm answered and said unto Bäläk , Told not I thee, saying, All that Yähwč speaketh, that I must do?) Numbers 23:26.
waYaan waYomar hálo ët ásher yäsiym y'hwäh B'fiy otô esh'mor l'daBër.
(And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yähwč hath put in my mouth? ) Numbers 23:12
waTomer häätôn el-Bil'äm hálô änokhiy áton'khä ásher-räkhav'Tä älay mëôd'khä ad-haYôm haZeh hahaš'Kën hiš'Kan'Tiy laásôt l'khä Koh waYomer lo.
(And the ass said unto Bil`äm, [Am] not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since [I was] thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.) Numbers 22:30
waYomer Bäläq el-Bil'äm hálo shäloªch shälach'Tiy ëleykhä liq'ro-läkh' läMäh lo-hälakh'Tä ëläy haum'näm lo ûkhal KaB'dekhä
(And said unto Bil`äm, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?) Numbers 22:37.
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When was Hormar named?
1. During Moses lifetime:
The Lord listened to Israel’s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah. Numbers 21:2
2. IT was After the death of Joshua
Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyedc the city. Therefore it was called Hormah Judges 1:17.
But Joshua is aware of the name:
the king of Hormah one, the king of Arad one Joshua 12:14.
Which of the 2 Hormah(s) is Moses referring to here?
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah. Numbers 14:45.