Judith 5:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.

⁸ Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which consisted in the worship of many gods,

⁹ They worshipped one God of heaven, who also commanded them to depart from thence, and to dwell in Charan. And when there was a famine over all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there for four hundred years were so multiplied, that the army of them could not be numbered.