38He said, |Go.| He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.


In Context

35 It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, |Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back.|

36 She said to him, |My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.|

37 She said to her father, |Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.|

38 He said, |Go.| He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

39 It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,

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

Judges 11:38 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:38"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.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:38And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:38And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months. And when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her virginity in the mountains.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:38And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:38And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:38And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:38And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:38And he saith, 'Go;' and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:38And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.