According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.

According to Rabbinic Judaism the Torah was revealed by God to Moses ; within it, Jews find 613 Mitzvot ( commandments ).

According to the Five Books of Moses, Abraham is revered as the one who overcame the idol worship of his family and surrounding people by recognizing the Hebrew God and establishing a covenant with him and creating the foundation of what has been called by scholars " Ethical Monotheism ".

According to Rabbinic tradition, all valid interpretations of the written Torah were revealed to Moses at Sinai in oral form, and handed down from teacher to pupil ( The oral revelation is in effect coextensive with the Talmud itself ).

According to Jewish tradition, God gave both the Written Law ( Torah ) and the Oral Law ( additional laws and customs meant to be passed down from teacher to student ) to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

According to the Qur ’ ān, he was, along with Caleb, one of the two believing spies whom Moses had sent to spy the land of Canaan.

According to a family tree prepared in Jerusalem after World War II, Wittgenstein's paternal great-grandfather was Moses Meier, a Jewish land agent who lived with his wife, Brendel Simon, in Bad Laasphe in the Principality of Wittgenstein, Westphalia.

According to the historic view of the Jewish faith, allegorically the Oral Law ( Torah she-be ' al-peh ) was also given to Moses at Sinai, and is the exposition of the Written Law as relayed by the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

According to Genesis 46: 11, Amram's father Kehath immigrated to Egypt with 70 of Jacob's household, making Moses part of the second generation of Israelites born during their time in Egypt.

According to the Bible, after crossing the Red Sea and leading the Israelites towards the desert, Moses was summoned by God to Mount Sinai, also referred to as Mount Horeb, the same place where Moses had first talked to the Burning Bush, tended the flocks of Jethro his father-in-law, and later produced water by striking the rock with his staff and directed the battle with the Amalekites.

According to theologian John Barclay, the Moses of Artapanus " clearly bears the destiny of the Jews, and in his personal, cultural and military splendor, brings credit to the whole Jewish people.

According to Feldman, Josephus also attaches particular significance to Moses ' possession of the " cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice.

According to the Qur ' an, Moses encourages the Israelites to enter Canaan, but they are unwilling to fight the Canaanites, fearing certain defeat.

According to Islamic tradition, Moses is buried at Maqam El-Nabi Musa, Jericho.

According to Jewish tradition, the Jewish calendar is calculated based on mathematical rules handed down from God to Moses at the moment the command was given to make sure that Passover always falls in the springtime.

According to Islamic history, the Israelites, after the time of the prophet Moses, wanted a king to rule over their country.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Maimonides ( III 22 – 23 ), each of Job's friends represents famous, distinct schools of thought concerning God and divine providence.

According to Maimonides, the correct view of providence lies with Elihu, who teaches Job that one must examine his religion ().

According to Maimonides, any Jew who rejects even one of these principles would be considered an apostate and a heretic.

According to Maimonides ( whose life began almost a hundred years after the end of the Gaonic era ), all Jewish communities during the Gaonic era formally accepted the Babylonian Talmud as binding upon themselves, and modern Jewish practice follows the Babylonian Talmud's conclusions on all areas in which the two Talmuds conflict.

According to Maimonides, Jesus of Nazareth is not the Messiah, as is claimed by Christians and Muslims.

According to Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah, the highest level of tzedakah is giving charity that will allow the poor to break out of the poverty cycle and become independent and productive members of society.

According to several authorities, a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted.

According to Maimonides, the Geonim were considered " unintelligible in our days, and there are but few who are able to comprehend them.

According to several authorities (" Yad Mal ' akhi " rule 26, pg 186 ), a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even though the latter apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted.

According to Maimonides himself, deducing law from the sources had already become a precarious proposition ( for a number of reasons )-even his own times.

According to Maimonides ( Isurei Biah 13: 15 ), in the days of Kings David and Solomon, Batei Dinim ( Jewish courts ) did not accept converts.

According to Kellner ( 1991 ) on Maimonides, a ger toshav ( or Noahide ) could be a transitional stage on the way to becoming a ger tzedek () or " righteous alien ", a convert to Judaism.

According to Maimonides ( based on Tractate Yevamot of the Babylonian Talmud 49b-50a ): " One whose merit surpasses his iniquity is a tzadik ".

According to Maimonides, about one hundred of the permanent 613 commandments based on the Torah, by rabbinical enumeration, directly concern sacrifices, ( excluding those commandments that concern the actual Temple and the priests themselves of which there are about another fifty )

According to Maimonides, he wrote the Guide " to promote the true understanding of the real spirit of the Law, to guide those religious persons who, adhering to the Torah, have studied philosophy and are embarrassed by the contradictions between the teachings of philosophy and the literal sense of the Torah ,"

According to Fox, Maimonides carefully assembled the Guide " so as to protect people without a sound scientific and philosophical education from doctrines that they cannot understand and that would only harm them, while making the truths available to students with the proper personal and intellectual preparation.

According to Maimonides, to argue that " because I have never observed something coming into existence without coming from a substratum it cannot occur " is equivalent to arguing that " because I cannot empirically observe eternity it does not exist.

According to Maimonides, shaving the sidelocks was a heathen practice.

According to Maimonides, scalp and beard nega ' im are characterized by hair loss without any change to the skin of the bald spot The Tosefta, however, maintains that the skin of the bald spot does indeed become altered in a negah.

According to Maimonides, this law is a requirement for all kosher Torah scrolls.

According to Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed the prophets used metaphors and analogies and, except for Moses, their words are not to be taken literally.