Judges 11:40
Good News Translation
that the Israelite women would go out for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.

New Revised Standard Version
for four days every year the daughters of Israel would go out to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

Contemporary English Version
every year, Israelite girls walk around for four days, weeping for Jephthah's daughter.

New American Bible
for Israelite women to go yearly to mourn the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days of the year.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

yearly.

Judges 5:11 Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the enemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty.

four days

1 Kings 9:25 Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.

Context
Jephthah's Tragic Vow
39And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept: 40That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days.
Cross References
Judges 11:39
And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:

Judges 12:1
But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.

Judges 11:39
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