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Sirach 24 includes a quote of the Greek Septuagint translation of Deuteronomy 33, showing that its author treated this version as scripture. The Torah was not only in use but its Greek translations were gaining recognition as authoritative.
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1000+ CE

LXX Deuteronomy 33:4

Septuagint
2 And he said, The Lord has come from Sinai, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hastened out of the mount of Paran, with the ten thousands of Kadesh; on his right hand were his angels with him. 3 And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones are under your hands; and they are under you; and he received of his words 4 the law which Moses charged us, an inheritance to the assemblies of Jacob. 5 And he shall be prince with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Israel. 6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let him be many in number.
Date: 300–201 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)

Sirach 24:23

Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus
Deuterocanon
22 He who obeys me will not be ashamed. Those who work with me will not sin.” 23 All these things are the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the law which Moses commanded us for an inheritance for the assemblies of Jacob. 25 It is he who makes wisdom abundant, as Pishon, and as Tigris in the days of first fruits. 26 He makes understanding full as the Euphrates, and as the Jordan in the days of harvest, 27 who makes instruction shine forth as the light, as Gihon in the days of vintage.
Date: 195–180 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... 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 ..."

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