toroth

They are "statutes" (chuqqoth) when thought of as immutable, and "laws" (toroth) insofar as they involve divine instruction or teaching.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

Quite naturally, when the period of formal codification set in, each new code was styled a torah, and these separate toroth were the stepping-stones to, and afterwards the constituent parts of, the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

More developed than these are the first available historic toroth, such as were pronounced in cases of private litigation at Raphidim (Ex., xvii, 13 sq.) by Moses, relying for his direction on the analogies of precedent or custom.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

It is evidently based upon the _toroth_, or decisions, rendered by the priests concerning the various ceremonial questions thus treated.

The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament Charles Foster Kent 1896

(to cast) be the root, there would be a peculiar historic interest attaching to the word, because of the implication that the first toroth, or decisions, of whatever kind, were arrived at chiefly, or at least in important cases, by the casting of lots.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

(!) that the priesthood of the central sanctuary wrote down their toroth even in early times; and that it is absurd to suppose that the priestly and ceremonial laws were first written down, or even made, in the exile and in Babylon, where there was no worship.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

But only those rites were included in the Torah which the priests had to teach others, not those which they discharged themselves; even in Leviticus this distinction may be traced; the instructions characterised as toroth being chiefly those as to animals which might or might not be eaten, as to clean and unclean states, as to leprosy and its marks (cf. Deuteronomy xxiv.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881