Judges 11:36-40 ▼

36 And she said to him, “My father, you have made a vow to the LORD; do to me as you have vowed, since the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, the Ammonites.”

37 And she said to her father, “Let this one thing be done for me; let me alone for two months, so that I may go to the mountains and weep over my virginity, I and my companions.”

38 And he said, “Go.” So he sent her away for two months; and she left with her companions, and wept over her virginity on the mountains.

39 At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her as he had vowed; and she had no relations with a man. It became a custom in Israel,

40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to tell the story of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.