2. And her husband was Manasses, who died in the time of the barley harvest:
3. For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and the heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and was buried there with his fathers.
4. And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.
5. And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids.