38 And he answered her, 'Go.' And he released her for two months. And when she had departed with her friends and companions, she wept over her virginity in the hillsides.
39 And when the two months expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her just as he had vowed, though she knew no man. From this, the custom grew up in Israel, and the practice has been preserved,
40 such that, after each year passes, the daughters of Israel convene as one, and they lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, for four days.
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