For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
They turned away from the ways of their forebears and worshipped the God of heaven, the God they had come to know; so their own people drove them out from before their gods, and they fled to Mesopotamia and lived there for many years.
