His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.
and was there some whole months or a year and four whole months, according to Ben Gersom; so Kimchi and Ben Melech observe the copulative "and" is wanting, which is expressed in 1 Samuel 27:7 and "yamim, days", is so the times used for a year, Judges 14:8.