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Antique Torah Scroll Fragment of Genesis - Creation Story - Antique Torah Scroll Fragment of Genesis - Creation Story | Source: Middle East, 17th / 18th Century | Approx. Dimensions: 30” W x 17.5” H | Handwritten in Hebrew with ink on parchment | Approx. 300-400 year old Sefer Torah Scroll fragment handwritten on leather parchment | Inscribed in ink with a quill on genuine gevil, made from the skin of a kosher animal - goat, cattle, or deer. The parchment Torah fragment has five (5) columns and has the expected sewing holes down the left and right sides of the scroll, as well as remnants of string where it was sewn to the previous and next piece of parchment | In Judaism, the Torah is the holiest book within Judaism, the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch). In Christianity, the Five Books of Moses” or ”the Mosaic Law”, were the first 5 books of the Old Testament of the Bible.