35. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Oh no! My daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You are my agony! For I opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can’t take it back."
36. But she replied to him, "My father, you’ve opened your mouth to the Lord, so you should do to me just what you’ve promised. After all, the Lord has carried out just punishment for you on your enemies the Ammonites."
37. Then she said to her father, "Let this one thing be done for me: hold off for two months and let me and my friends wander the hills in sadness, crying over the fact that I never had children."
38. "Go," he responded, and he sent her away for two months. She and her friends walked on the hills and cried because she would never have children.
39. When two months had passed, she returned to her father, and he did to her what he had promised. She had not known a man intimately. But she gave rise to a tradition in Israel where
40. for four days every year Israelite daughters would go away to recount the story of the Gileadite Jephthah’s daughter.