Judges 11:38-40

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁸ And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months. And when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her virginity in the mountains.

³⁹ And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:

⁴⁰ That from year to year the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite for four days.