Moses is the most ancient writer, of whom there remain any authentic works.
These additions, however, make no alterations in the sense, but are by way of illustration only..
Indeed it must be owned, that some small additions have been made.
Some difficulties have been started about the author of these books, because some passages have been observed in them, that seem not to agree to Moses.
These books are acknowledged as authentic and inspired, by general consent, both of Jews and Christians.
Afterward they were divided for convenience in reading.
Moses composed but one single work, of which the law was, as it were, the body, and Genesis was the preface.
Probably these books were not originally separate works, as we find them now.
He has left us the Pentateuch, or the five first books of the Old Testament, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Moses is the most ancient writer, of whom there remain any authentic works
