Judges 11:37-39
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
37 And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go and wander[a] on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.” 38 And 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. 39 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made.[b] She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel
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- Judges 11:37 Cn: Heb go down
- 11.39 Human sacrifice, common in Canaan and surrounding lands, was never permitted in Israel; cf. Lev 18.21. The few cases we find were due to foreign influence or to an erroneous conscience; cf. 2 Sam 21.4-6; 2 Kings 23.10.
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