^{1 Ref} Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

^{2 Ref} And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.