40that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.


In Context

37 And she said to her father, |Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.|

38 And he said, |Go.| And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

39 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made. She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel

40 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

Judges 11:40 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:40that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:40[That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:40That from year to year the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite for four days.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:40that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:40that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:40That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:40that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:40from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:40That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.