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


In Context

37 But grant me this one request," she said. "Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry."

38 "You may go," he said. And he let her go for two months. She and the girls went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.

39 After the two months, she returned to her father and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin. From this comes the Israelite custom

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

Judges 11:40 in Other Translations

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:40that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the 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.