And it came to pass, as she came [unto him]
To her husband, being conducted from her father's house to his,
in order to consummate the marriage, just as we may suppose when
she was got to her husband's house, before she lighted off the
beast on which she rode:
that she moved him to ask of her father a
field;
or persuaded him to make such a request to him, or that he would
give her leave to make it; that is, Achsah put Othniel her
espoused husband upon it, to entreat her father Caleb, or suffer
her to use her interest with him to obtain a field of him, over
and above, and something better, than what he had already given;
and she lighted off [her] ass;
she leaped or threw herself from it; or bowing herself, she fell
off on her feet, as Jarchi interprets it, and in an humble manner
made her obeisance to her father; though De Dieu, from the use of
the word in the Ethiopic language, gives a different sense, as if
she continued on her ass, and did not alight, waiting the success
of her husband's request; or that her father, taking notice of
this, might ask the reason of it, which would give her an
opportunity of asking the favour of him, which she judged was a
proper time of doing it; and there are some versions which seem
to countenance this sense the Septuagint version is,
``she cried from off the ass;''and the Vulgate Latin version,
``she sighed as she sat upon the ass:''and Caleb said unto her, what wouldest thou?