that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Judges 11:40 in context
Judges 11:37–40
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Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
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He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
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At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
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that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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