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


In Context

37 And she saith unto her father, 'Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity — I and my friends.'

38 And 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;

39 and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is a statute in Israel:

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