1 and came to Kadesh.
17Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.
18 comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a burnt offering.”
32So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand.
33 on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my companions and I.”
38“Go,” he said, and he sent her away for two months. So she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.
39At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow he had made. She had never slept with a man. So there arose an Israelite custom that
40for four days every year the daughters of Israel would go out to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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