Judges 11:36-40
Judges 11:36
So she said to him, “My father, you have given your word to the Lord; do to me just as you have said, since the Lord has brought you vengeance on your enemies, the sons of Ammon.”
Judges 11:37
And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me; allow me two months, so that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my friends.”
Judges 11:38
Then he said, “Go.” So he let her go for two months; and she left with her friends, and wept on the mountains because of her virginity.
Judges 11:39
And at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her what he had vowed; and she had no relations with a man. And it became a custom in Israel,
Judges 11:40
that the daughters of Israel went annually to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days in the year.