Scripture · Old Testament
Judges 11:38
Judges 11:38 is verse 38 of Judges chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
King James Version
And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
World English Bible
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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Judges 11:36–40 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
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