And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: Grant me two months, so that I may go and wander on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, my companions and I.”
She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”;
“This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked favorably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.”
“Go,” he said and sent her away for two months. So she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.
Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.