Unlike many other religions that originated in the Fertile Crescent, Judaism is the belief in only one God, or
. The first
five books of the Bible, called the
tell how Judaism
began. These books describe how God told the Israelites to practice right
behavior, or
The Torah tells that God made a
with Abraham, whom Jews consider to be the
founder of their religion. According to the Bible, the Israelites ended up in
Egypt, where they became slaves. Moses became their leader and helped
them in an escape from slavery called the
The Bible
describes how God told Moses to give the Israelites a series of ten
to teach them how to act toward God and other
peopel.