Judges 11:40
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.In other versions
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
ASV
For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.
BBE
that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
DBY
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
WEB
from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.
YLT
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
ENG
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
WBT
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
BSB
In context
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.
39And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
40That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
People in this verse
- Jephthah