Judith 5:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ At one time they lived in Mesopota′mia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers who were in Chalde′a. ⁸ For they had left the ways of their ancestors, and they worshiped the God of heaven, the God they had come to know; hence they drove them out from the presence of their gods; and they fled to Mesopota′mia, and lived there for a long time. ⁹ Then their God commanded them to leave the place where they were living and go to the land of Canaan. There they settled, and prospered, with much gold and silver and very many cattle.