diff --git a/libs/langchain/langchain/vectorstores/bageldb.py b/libs/langchain/langchain/vectorstores/bageldb.py
index c2119739d4a..fbf5df78ef9 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/langchain/vectorstores/bageldb.py
+++ b/libs/langchain/langchain/vectorstores/bageldb.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class Bagel(VectorStore):
         try:
             import bagel  # noqa: F401
         except ImportError:
-            raise ValueError("Please install bagel `pip install betabageldb`.")
+            raise ImportError("Please install bagel `pip install betabageldb`.")
         return self._cluster.find(
             query_texts=query_texts,
             query_embeddings=query_embeddings,