Thursday, March 20, 2008

JUDAISM

Judaism is a religion that came before Christianity. Abraham was the father of Jews. He led the Jews into Canaan and had a son named Isaac. God wanted to test his trust so God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son. When Abraham went up to the mountains to sacrifice his son a angel came down and said not to kill his son.
Moses was adopted by a Egyptian queen. He had with her until he accidentally killed one of his servants. He ran away and married a woman in a tribe in the middle of the desert. When Moses saw the burning bush God spoke to him, and commanded Moses to lead the Jews out of Egypt and back to Canaan. When Moses asked the king to let the Hebrews (Jews) go, the king said no. God was full of anger and had directed Moses to do the "The Ten Plagues." On the last plague the king had let the Jews go. Then Moses went up to Mount Sinai to receive the "Ten Commandments," which were given to Moses by God himself.
The star of David is the symbol of the Jews and was established about 200 years ago. Legends say that the star of David was on King Davids Shield.

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