And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife ... bowed herself and travailed. While in some parts of the East parturient women anciently gave birth to their offspring in a standing posture (see the note at Genesis 25:26), in others they are accustomed to bring forth kneeling, as is still the custom in Abyssinia (Ludolph, 'History of AEthiopia,' 1:, 15).