Early+Civilizations+israel+mj

=Early Civilzations=
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=Intro=

The God Of Abraham
Abraham and his family traveled for many years. They prayed to Monotheism, their god. Yahweh was the Hebrews god. Yahweh looked after the Hebrews, but not only because of sacrifices, rituals, and ceremonies, but because Abraham had promised to obey him. Yahweh had promised to protect Abraham and his descendants in return. This promise between the founder of the hebrew people and god is called a covenant.

Moses and the Exodus
The Hebrews migrated to Egypt from drought and threat of famine. The Hebrews were given places of honor in the Egyptian kingdom at first. Later on they were forced into slavery.

Let My People Go
Between 1300 and 1200 B.C., the Hebrews left Egypt. The Jews call this event "the Exodus," and they all remember it every year during the festival of the passover. The torah says that the man who led the Hebrews out of slavery was named Moses. When he was born than the Egyptian Pharaoh thought that there were too many Hebrews in Egypt so he ordered his soldiers to kill all of the male babies. When Moses' mother heard about it she went and hide him in the reeds long the banks of the Nile. The Egyptian princess found him in the river and decided to adopt him. Even though he lived in a high power, he still obeyed god and led the Jews/Hebrews out of Egypt. The Pharoh sent his army to chase after them. Meanwhile Moses and the Hebrews had to find a way to cross the Red Sea. Moses asked God to help him part the Red Sea, and he did.

A New Covenant
Moses led the people from place to place, which is called nomads. While the Hebrews were traveling across the Sinai Peninsula, Moses had settled everyone down while he went to mount Sinai to talk to god and ask him for the ten commandments.Yahweh put them on two stone tablets and Moses thanked him. These commandments were the basis for civil and religious laws of Judaism.

The Land and People of the Bible
The Torah says that the Hebrew people traveled the Sinai Desert for 40 years. The Bible talks about where the Hebrews had gone after those 40 years. After Moses' death they went back to Canaan, where Abraham used to live. The Hebrews changed from nomads to farmers and herders, and started building cities. They learned how to do everything from other people in Canaan. When they got to Canaan they started the 12 Tribes of Israel. The tribes were self governing and had separate territories with judges whom God chose. When times came that someone wanted to get the land of one of the 12 Tribes, all the tribes would help that one with war or whatever it was until they beat. =Why Should I Care?= I love learning about the world's history and seeing how other people used to live, and I imagine me living like that. I care about learning this because most of this stuff I don't already know, and the things I am learning about the israelites are new to me and interesting. The part where they wandered the desert for 40 years, I never knew that. when they went back to Canaan and started their civilization again all that stuff is new to me and I enjoy learning new things!