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Judges 11:40
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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Judges 11:40 in other translations
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
that the daughters of Israel went yearly four days in a year to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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In context
37 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.”
38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
39 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
40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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