"... Scholars have identified Ben Sira’s scriptural corpus as some unified form of at least the Torah and Prophets. Ben Sira frequently mentions the term Law to refer to divine commandments generally (Sirach 32:24; 33:2; 41:8). Nevertheless, throughout his book he at times refers to νόμος ('law') to indicate a specific writing that he considered to be divine Scripture: All these things are the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the law that Moses commanded as an inheritance for the congregation of Jacob. (Sirach 24:23) While Ben Sira elsewhere refers generally to the Mosaic covenant linked to a law of the Most High (Sirach 42:2; 44:20), here he makes explicit that this law is linked to an explicit book. This book is some early version of the Hebrew Pentateuch. This reliance on a version of the Mosaic Torah is strengthened by the fact that Sirach 24:23 appears to be an almost verbatim citation of LXX Deuteronomy 33:4. While one cannot know the exact text-form used by Ben Sira, this indicates that there was a written form of the Mosaic Torah/Law that was regarded as scriptural or authoritative for the children of Israel ..."