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39 Then she returned to her father, who did as he had vowed. So she was never married.[a] And after that it became a custom in Israel 40 that the young girls went away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah’s daughter.

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  1. Judges 11:39 So she was never married. It is not clear whether he killed her or satisfied his vow by consecrating her to perpetual virginity.

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