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covenant |
an agreement or promise |
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Exodus |
Flip cardExodusthe escape of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery to freedom |
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Israelites |
cardIsraelitesan early name for the Jewish people |
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Jerusalem |
the holiest city of the Jews; capital of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and then Judah |
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Judaism |
the first religion to worship one God, developed among the ancient Israelites |
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slavery |
the state of a person who is treated as the property of another |
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Ten Commandments |
ten laws and teachings said to have been given to Moses by God |
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Torah |
Judaism’s most sacred text, consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible |
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traditions |
an inherited or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior |
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ethics |
a set of moral principles or values |
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exiled |
to banish or expel from one’s own country or home |
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Jewish Diaspora |
the scattering of the Jewish people outside their homeland, beginning in 586 B.C.E. |
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monotheism |
the belief that there is only one God |
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polytheism |
the belief that there are many gods |
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Talmud |
the collection of ancient Jewish writings, or commentaries, that interpret the laws and teachings of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh |
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Yavneh |
an ancient city in Israel that became a center for Jewish learning |