acovenant is an agreement. Jewish people believe that God made covenants with several figures mentioned in the
Torah. The covenants below are between God and the father of Judaism, Abraham.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred [relatives], and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will shew [show] thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.[...]
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river
of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates[...]
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
Explanation:
Most belief systems have ethical/moral codes of conduct that describe how one should live their life
based on the beliefs of that religion. For Judaism, the Ten Commandments, that appear in the Torah, are
the clearest code of conduct. According to the Torah, God inscribed the commandments on two stone
tablets and gave them to Moses to share with the rest of the Israelites.
The Ten Commandments
And God spake all these words, saying,
(1) I am the LORD thy God[...]
(2) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven [engraved] image, or any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them[…]
(3) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain[…]
(4) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy[] in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates[]
(5) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee.
(6) Thou shalt not kill.
(7) Thou shalt not commit adultery [cheat on one’s husband or wife].
(8) Thou shalt not steal.
(9) Thou shalt not bear false witness [lie] against thy neighbour.
(10) Thou shalt not covet [want] thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his [donkey], nor any thing that is thy neighbour's[]
