New American Bible, Revised Edition

Judges 11:38-40 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

38. “Go,” he replied, and sent her away for two months. So she departed with her companions and wept for her virginity in the mountains.

39. At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She had not had relations with any man.It became a custom in Israel

40. for Israelite women to go yearly to mourn the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days of the year.