Exodus till Section 16

I can not recall hearing the stories of this section as a child or young adult. Up until the ten commandments what the hell kind of acts were the Israelies committing? Were they just heckling each others neighbors and killing at will? I agree with Plotts on this section; the ten commandments are just a list of rules of how to live by a humanisitic set of rules. The commandments have not a drop of morals described in their text. One question I had about this section is why do all the Israelites keep moaning and groaning about starvation and thirst when they know that the Lord will help them? Obviously he saved them from the slavery of the egyptians and killed tons of egyptians in the process. After the ten commandents, the Lord defines the rules of slavery among Moses' people....I don not think that they teach this is in Bible Studies. Even though the rules of slavery are not the same as we would define slavery today, they are still pretty rash. Besides that, there are still many references to multiple Gods in the time of Moses, even by the Lord himself.