Judith 5:5–9

5 Then said eAchior, the captain of all the sons of cAmmon,

Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant. 6 This people are descended of the Chaldeans: 7 and fthey sojourned heretofore in gMesopotamia, because hthey would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea. 8 For they * left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped ithe God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into gMesopotamia, and sojourned there many days. 9 Then jtheir God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan: where they dwelt, and kwere increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.