38. Jephthah said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months. She and her friends stayed in the mountains. There they cried for her because she would never marry.
39. After two months she returned to her father. Jephthah did to her what he promised to the Lord. Now Jephthah’s daughter had never had a husband.So this became a custom in Israel.
40. Every year the women of Israel would go out for four days. They did this to remember the daughter of Jephthah from Gilead.