2
Her husband Manasseh, who belonged to her tribe and family, had died during the barley harvest.
3
For as he stood overseeing the men who were binding sheaves in the field, he was overcome by the burning heat, and took to his bed and died in Bethulia his city. So they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothan and Balamon.
4
Judith had lived at home as a widow for three years and four months.
5
She set up a tent for herself on the roof of her house, and girded sackcloth about her loins and wore the garments of her widowhood.
6
She fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the day before the sabbath and the sabbath itself, the day before the new moon and the day of the new moon, and the feasts and days of rejoicing of the house of Israel.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.