OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 11:38

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He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

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Verse 38. Mountains. Such places were frequented in times of mourning. Jeremiah 31:15. Isaiah 15:2. Calmet.—Jepthe allowed his daughter this short respite, without any offence, (Deuteronomy 23:21,) before he immolated her, ( Menochius.) or before he debarred her from the society of men. Grot. and so forth

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