Bible in Basic English
"For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year."
— Judges 11:40-1964, Bible in Basic English
“That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. ”
“that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. ”
“that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.”
“Every year Israelite women commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.”
“That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days. ”
“That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. ”
Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.
And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.
And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,
For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.