38. He told her to go and sent her away for two months. She and her friends went up into the mountains and grieved because she was going to die unmarried and childless.
39. After two months she came back to her father. He did what he had promised the Lord, and she died still a virgin.This was the origin of the custom in Israel
40. that the young women would go away for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.