Hardly had Moses descended from heaven with the Torah, when
Satan appeared before the Lord and said: "Where, forsooth, is the
place where the Torah is kept?" For Satan knew nothing of the
revelation of God on Sinai, as God had employed him elsewhere
on purposes, that he might not appear before him as an accuser,
saying: "Wilt Thou give the Torah to a people that forty days later
will worship the Golden Calf?" In answer to Satan's question
regarding the whereabouts of the Torah, God said: "I gave the
Torah to Earth." To earth, then, Satan betook himself with his
query: "Where is the Torah?" Earth said: "God knows of its course,
He knoweth its abiding-place, for 'He looketh to the ends of the
earth, and seeth under the whole heaven.'" Satan now passed on to
the sea to seek for the Torah, but the sea also said: "It is not with
me," and the abyss said: "It is not in me." Destruction and death
said: "We have heard the fame thereof with our ears." Satan now
returned to God and said: "O Lord of the world! Everywhere have I
sought the Torah, but I found it not." God replied: "Go, seek the
son of Amram." Satan now hastened to Moses and asked him:
"Where is the Torah that God hath given thee?" Whereupon Moses
answered: "Who am I, that the Holy One, blessed be He, should
have given me the Torah?" God hereupon spoke to Moses: "O
Moses, thou utterest a falsehood." But Moses answered: "O Lord
of the world! Thou hast in Thy possession a hidden treasure that
daily delights Thee. Dare I presume to declare it my possession?"
Then God said: "As a reward for thy humility, the Torah shall be
named for thee, and it shall henceforth be known as the Torah of
Moses." [257]

Moses departed from the heavens with the two tables on which the
Ten Commandments were engraved, and just the words of it are by