Abraham and Israel
This man is known as the father of the people of Israel.
Who was Abraham?
This man led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
Who was Moses?
This term means that everyone, including rulers, must follow established laws.
What is Rule of Law?
This man was the son of Isaac and became the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Who was Jacob?
This word means the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
Abraham was called to leave this city and journey to Canaan.
What was Ur?
The Exodus refers to the Israelites being delivered from slavery in this country.
What is Egypt?
According to the tradition described in the textbook, Moses received the Ten Commandments on this mountain.
What is Mount Sinai?
Joseph was sold by his brothers and eventually rose to an important position in this country.
What is Egypt?
This man was Abraham's grandson and Joseph's father.
Who was Jacob?
This term refers to the ancestors of the people of Israel, beginning with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
What are the Patriarchs?
Moses and the Israelites crossed this large body of water during their escape from Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
The Ten Commandments are an example of a set of rules intended to guide the behavior of this community.
What is the people of Israel?
These people ruled Egypt during the period when Joseph's family first entered the country.
Who were the Hyksos?
This body of land connects Egypt with the region where Canaan is located.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
This land was promised to Abraham and his descendants.
What is Canaan?
This mountain is traditionally identified as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
This term describes the idea that laws should promote the well-being and flourishing of the people living under them.
What is Rule of Law?
This term refers to the descendants of Jacob who became the twelve tribes of Israel.
Who were the Israelites?
Moses and the Israelites traveled through this region after leaving Egypt and before entering Canaan.
What is the wilderness of Sinai?
Joseph's family traveled to Egypt because of this major problem in Canaan.
What was a famine?
After leaving Egypt, the Israelites spent many years traveling through this type of region before reaching Canaan.
What is the wilderness?
Why is the idea of Rule of Law important to a society?
What is because it establishes that laws apply to everyone, including leaders?
This location became especially important to the Israelites after their journey from Egypt because it was the land promised to Abraham's descendants.
What is Canaan?
Put these events in the correct general order:
Exodus, Abraham's journey to Canaan, Joseph's time in Egypt, Ten Commandments.
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