Judith 5:7–10

⁷and ^fthey sojourned heretofore in ^gMesopotamia, because ^hthey would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea. ⁸For 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. ⁹Then ^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. ¹⁰But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, ^lthey went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and ^mbecame there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.