Judges 11:38-40

The Voice

She and her friends went away and wailed upon the mountains because she would never know the love of a man; ³⁹ then when two months had passed, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. Since she had never slept with a man, a custom arose in Israel ⁴⁰ that every year the young women in Israel would go out for four days to lament the fate of the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.