1. There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:
2. And she left him and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.
3. And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy,
4. And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of his father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.