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Judges 11:39-40
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Judges 11:39-40
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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.[a] She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel 40 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
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- 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.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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