Judges 11:37-39
1599 Geneva Bible
37 Also she said unto her father, Do thus much for me: suffer me two months, that I may go to the mountains, and [a]bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
38 And he said, Go: and he sent her away two months: so she went with her companions, and lamented her virginity upon the mountains.
39 And after the end of two months, she turned again unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed, and she had known no man. And it was a custom in Israel:
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- Judges 11:37 For it was counted as a shame in Israel, to die without children, and therefore they rejoiced to be married.
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