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Today, fundamentalist and Orthodox Jews believe that the current Torah available today is no different from what was received from God to Moses with only minor scribal errors.

Many [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox Jews]] suggest that over the millennia, many scribal errors have crept into the Torah's text. They are aware that the Masoretes (7th to 10th centuries CE) compared all extant variations to create a definitive text. Also, there are a number of places in the Torah where gaps are seen - and they are prepared to accept that part of the story in these places may have been edited out. In general, Orthodox Jews view the Written and Oral Torah as the same as Moses taught, for all practical purposes.

Due to advances in scientific [[documentary hypothesis|biblical scholarship]], and archeological and linguistic research, most non-Orthodox Jews reject this principle. Instead, they may accept that the core of the Oral and Written Torah comes from Moses, but maintain that the written Torah that we have today has been edited together from several documents.