38. Jephthah said, “Go.” So he sent her away for two months. She and her friends stayed in the mountains and cried for her because she would never marry.
39. After two months she returned to her father, and Jephthah did to her what he had promised. Jephthah’s daughter never had a husband.From this came a custom in Israel that
40. every year the young women of Israel would go out for four days to remember the daughter of Jephthah from Gilead.