35. When he saw her, he ripped up his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought utter disaster to me. You are my undoing, for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back.”
36. She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord. Do to me what has come out of your mouth, because the Lord worked vengeance upon your enemies, the Ammonites.”
37. Then she said to her father, “Let this be done for me: Give me two months, and I and my friends will wander the hill country and mourn over my virginity.”
38. He said, “Go,” and he sent her away for two months. She and her friends went and mourned over her virginity in the hill country.
39. At the end of two months she returned to her father, and he did to her according to the vow that he had made. She had not ever slept with a man.So it became a custom in Israel
40. that the women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days each year.