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They once came to live in Mesopotamia, because they did not want to follow the gods of their ancestors who lived in Chaldaea. (Judith 5, 7)
They abandoned the way of their ancestors to worship the God of heaven, the God they learnt to acknowledge. Banished from the presence of their own gods, they fled to Mesopotamia where they lived for a long time. (Judith 5, 8)
When God told them to leave their home and set out for Canaan, they settled there and accumulated gold and silver and great herds of cattle. (Judith 5, 9)
But the king of Egypt turned against them and exploited them by forcing them to make bricks; he degraded them, reducing them to slavery. (Judith 5, 11)
God dried up the Red Sea before them (Judith 5, 13)
and led them forward by way of Sinai and Kadesh-Barnea. Having driven off all the inhabitants of the desert, (Judith 5, 14)
they settled in the land of the Amorites and in their strength exterminated the entire population of Heshbon. Then, having crossed the Jordan, they took possession of all the hill-country, (Judith 5, 15)
driving out the Canaanites before them and the Perizzites, Jebusites, Shechemites and all the Girgashites, and lived there for many years. (Judith 5, 16)
All the while they did not sin before their God, prosperity was theirs, for they have a God who hates wickedness. (Judith 5, 17)
But when they turned from the path he had marked out for them some were exterminated in a series of battles, others were taken captive to a foreign land. The Temple of their God was rased to the ground and their towns were seized by their enemies. (Judith 5, 18)
So, now, master and lord, if this people has committed any fault, if they have sinned against their God, let us first be sure that they really have this reason to fail, then advance and attack them. (Judith 5, 20)
But if their nation is guiltless, my lord would do better to abstain, for fear that their Lord and God should protect them. We should then become the laughing-stock of the whole world.' (Judith 5, 21)
