Judges 11:38

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Judges 11:38

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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.

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KJV

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.

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WEB

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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ASV

American Standard Version

And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

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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.

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