Olketa raeting long bifor tu pruvim olketa Jew stap long Egypt long samting olsem mek-6 century B.C.E. Long datfala taem, Jeremiah talem message for olketa Jew wea stap long olketa difren ples long Egypt and long Memphis. (Jer. 44:1, footnote) Luk olsem plande Jew go stap long Egypt taem pipol long staka kantri followim kastom bilong olketa long Greece. Flavius Josephus sei samfala first wan for go stap long Alexandria hem olketa Jew. Gogo, olketa bigman markem big area bilong datfala taon for olketa stap long hem. Long first century C.E., Philo wea raet abaotem olketa Jew, sei 1 million Jew stap long olketa difren ples long Egypt. Olketa stap long “border bilong Libya go kasem border bilong Ethiopia.”