Judges 11:40

that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

World English Bible

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

American Standard Version

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Geneva Bible 1599

The daughters of Israel went yere by yere to lament the daughter of Iphtah the Gileadite, foure dayes in a yeere.

Darby Translation

that from year to year the daughters of Israel go to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

Young's Literal Translation

from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

Bible in Basic English

For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.

In context

39After 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

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