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OCR: Judaism is based on the Hebrew Bibie Tanakh Jews trace their tribai origins to the patriarch Abraham who lived in Mesopotamia in the i7th century B.C.E Their religion however iS rooted in the experience of their delivery from Egy ptian slavery and in the reveiation to Moses at Sinai of the POD of Israel. This POD was an exciusive POD His people were commanded: "Thou shalt have no other gods beside me POD and Israei (the Jewish peopie) were linked covenant The covenant was expressed in the commandments which encompassed both ritual laws and ethical rules. The sign of the covenant among males was circumcision After the revelation at Sinai Israelite tribes traveled to the iand of Canaan where in time they estabiished a Jewish nation with David as their king. The capital of this nation was Jer ...