A Torah scroll in the British Museum, open at Exodus
Torah (Hebrew: תורהcode: he is deprecated ) is a Hebrew word that means "instructions". When most people say the word Torah they either mean the whole JewishBible, the Tanakh, the first five books of the Bible, or all of the Jewish teaching in general. These five books are the beginning of both the Jewish and Christian bibles. They are
Genesis (Hebrew: Bereishit, בראשיתcode: he is deprecated ),
Exodus (Hebrew: Shemot, שמותcode: he is deprecated ),