Decrees
Laws
Laws noun - The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit.
Nearby Word: law
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- Together with Hindenburg, he sought to undermine the influence of the unstable Reichstag and ruled with presidential emergency decrees instead of laws under toleration by the SPD.
- In the Tanakh (Old Testament to Christian readers), worship of anything other than the one and only God was illegal according to many laws and decrees by the prophets and is listed as the First Commandment ("Thou shalt have no other gods before me.").
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There are, however, a whole bunch of brutal laws, traditions, commandments and decrees, plus some rules.
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