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35 And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. I made an oath[a] to Yahweh, and I cannot take it back.” 36 She said to him, “My father, you made an oath[b] to Yahweh. Do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh gave vengeance to you against your enemies, the Ammonites.”[c] 37 And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months so that I may go wander[d] on the mountains and lament over my virginity, I and my companions.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:35 Literally “I have opened wide my mouth”
  2. Judges 11:36 Literally “you have opened wide your mouth”
  3. Judges 11:36 Literally “sons/children of Ammon”
  4. Judges 11:37 Hebrew “down”