Judith 5:7-9

Wycliffe Bible

⁷ and this people dwelled first in Mesopotamia; for they would not (pur)sue [or follow] the gods of their fathers, that were in the land of Chaldea.

⁸ Therefore they forsook the ceremonies of their fathers, that were with the multitude of gods,

⁹ and they worshipped (the) one God of heaven, which also commanded to them to go out from thence, and to dwell in Canaan. And when hunger had covered all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there they were so multiplied by four hundred years [or and there by four hundred years so be multiplied], (so) that the host of them might not be numbered^[a].