Judges 11:37-39

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁷ And she said to her father, ‘Let this thing be done for me: Grant me two months, so that I may go and wander^[a] on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, my companions and I.’ ³⁸ ‘Go,’ he said and sent her away for two months. So she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains. ³⁹ At 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