Note 23 — THE THIRTEEN PRINCIPLES OF OUR CREED. (continued 4)

There is, however, a difference of opinion with regard to the last eight verses of the Pentateuch. According to Rabbi Jehudah (or Rabbi Nehemiah) Joshua wrote this passage. Rabbi Shimeon objected: “Is it possible that the Torah was incomplete when Moses was told, ‘Take this book of the law?’ (Deut. xxxi. 26).23 God dictated the last eight verses of the Pentateuch to Moses, and the latter wrote them with tears.”