Only reason I know is that I just finished helping my daughter study for her Old Testament exam which covered the Pentateuch. That was one of the study questions. My brain is currently full of all sorts of useful material like the names of all the Cities of Refuge and all the ceremonial items in the Temple and what Balaam said to Barak, and so on and so on.
The up side is that my daughter is reading the Bible closely for the first time, even learning memory verses . . . which really throws me off because I learned the King James version and her teacher is using RSV. Episcopalians are not big on Bible study although we do have three Scripture readings in the service . . . so this is a good thing.