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Judges 11:37-39
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37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish.[a] For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”[b] 38 He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave[c] for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.[d] 39 After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin.[e] Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.[f]

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  1. Judges 11:37 tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”
  2. Judges 11:37 tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity—I and my friends.”
  3. Judges 11:38 tn Heb “he sent her.”
  4. Judges 11:38 tn Heb “on the hills.” The words “as she walked” are supplied.
  5. Judges 11:39 tn Heb “She had never known a man.” Some understand this to mean that her father committed her to a life of celibacy, but the disjunctive clause (note the vav + subject + verb pattern) more likely describes her condition at the time the vow was fulfilled. (See G. F. Moore, Judges [ICC], 302-3; C. F. Burney, Judges, 324.) She died a virgin and never experienced the joys of marriage and motherhood.
  6. Judges 11:39 tn Heb “There was a custom in Israel.”
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