Bible verse
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
Judges 11:40 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 11.
36 “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
37 She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
38 “Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
39 After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
40 that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
KJV
[That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
ASV
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
ERV
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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