The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LEVITICUS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result LEVITICUS
- Utilise CV somehow to create Biblical work
- One delving into awful lust and vice – as found in OT book
- Religious text Clive reviewed, circulating it with American
- Numbers follow this jerk on view to all wearing jeans
- Numbers will follow this rule book
- Lust, vice and crime essentially written about in old law book
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The cryptic/wordplay part
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