TORAH & MOSES
Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, and Hebrew's believed the Torah was given by god. Torah gives the early history, laws, and beliefs of the Hebrew's.
God chose a sheperd named Abraham to be the father of the Hebrew people. God commanded Abraham to leave Ur and go to Canaan. Hebrew thought of Canaan as a Promised Land. Abraham, his family, and their herds made their way to Canaan. The Hebrew in Canaan took a new name as Israelites. The name came from Abraham's grandson Jacob. Jacob had 12 sons and majority of them became the 12 tribes of Israel. God commanded Moses to lead to the Exodus. The Israelites wandered in the Sinai Desert, and god spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. He came down with two stone tablets which God had written the Ten Commandments. These rules were the foundation for Israel's laws.