^{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.

^{3 Ref} Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.

⁴ And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.