Judges 11:40
38 “Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
39 After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
- KJV
- That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
- WEB
- that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
- ASV
- that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
- DARBY
- that from year to year the daughters of Israel go to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
- BLB
- [that] from time to time the daughters of Israel went to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in the year.
- ÅB
- År for år går Israels døtre avsted for å prise Jeftas, gileadittens datter fire dager om året.
- OTB
- at hvert år går Israels døtre ut i fire dager for å minnes datteren til Jefta, gileaditten.
- B1930
- År for år går Israels døtre avsted for å prise Jeftas, gileadittens datter fire dager om året.