brief history of Jews

God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. He then created Adam and Eve. One version says that God created Adam and Eve as equals, but another says Eve was just created to accompany Adam. Eve is the reason humans were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, for she ate from the forbidden tree of Good and Evil. But Jews trace their origins to Abraham. Abraham had two sons from which came the 12 Jewish tribes. God made a covenant with Noah that he would not flood the whole world again and later with Abraham and his descendants. 

God then asked his people to only praise Him as their one and only God. When they were freed from many years as slaves in Egypt, Moses, the Jewish leader, went to talk to God and receive the new commandments from Him. The Jews thought he was not coming back, so they began making an idol out of gold to praise him. This angered God and he punished them. Then God instructed Moses to make the Arc of the Covenant. 

Several prophets warned their people not to praise other gods, but they would always disobey. Many kings and prophets have come, but the country of Israel did not "exist" until 1948.