6 Nevertheless, after he had gazed long enough upon the beauty of her, he was moved to make him trial with his tongue. And he spake unto her despairingly in these words, saying Hast thou the coat of my father?
7 And because he could not frame to pronounce it right, therefore did she understand him not. Nevertheless, she did smile upon him for himself, and because of the way of him also.
8 And when the next day was come, he espied the maiden from his window; and she was walking in the courtyard of their habitation. And he descended unto her, seeking advancement in her eyes.
9 And when he had greeted her with his hand, and had put his countenance in the shape of his adoration, then spake he more words after the manner of before. And he said unto her, Hast thou a morsel of bread? Nay, my friend, but I have a little cheese.
10 Nevertheless, she understood no word of all that which he did say. But because he spake from out of his depths, therefore did she perceive the nature of his ailment.
11 Now after the passing of the fourteenth day, he did come upon the damsel unattended and alone, in a place apart that was well screened. And, behold, his speech was all used up; neither had she understood the meaning of any of it.
12 And there remained unto him no words, save only two. And because she had understood him not before, therefore spake he them unto him, and he said, Jer tame.
13 And, lo, she held up her mouth on the instant, and with her arms she did seize him forthwith; yea, she was filled with a great understanding.
14 ¶ And because he had put the matter at hazard, therefore did he fall unto her on that day.
15 ¶ Now there was a certain stripling of the men of En, and he was journeying along a ditch, being nigh unto that place where the host of Hu, it was encamped.