Verse 37

Judges 11:37

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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37 And she said to her father: Grant me only this which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may bewail my virginity with my companions.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל אָבִ֔י/הָ יֵעָ֥שֶׂה לִּ֖/י הַ/דָּבָ֣ר הַ/זֶּ֑ה הַרְפֵּ֨ה מִמֶּ֜/נִּי שְׁנַ֣יִם חֳדָשִׁ֗ים וְ/אֵֽלְכָה֙ וְ/יָרַדְתִּ֣י עַל הֶֽ/הָרִ֔ים וְ/אֶבְכֶּה֙ עַל בְּתוּלַ֔/י אָנֹכִ֖י ו/רעית/י וְ/רֵעוֹתָֽ/י

English Translation

And she said to my father, "Let this thing be done for me, ease me from two new ones, and I will go down to the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions."

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Chapter 11 Context

1 There was at that time Jephte the Galaadite, a most valiant man and a warrior, the son of a woman th... Focus ↗

2 Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who after they were grown up, thrust out Jephte, saying:... Focus ↗

3 Then he fled and avoided them and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered to him needy men... Focus ↗

4 In those days the children of Ammon made war against Israel. Focus ↗

5 And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went to fetch Jephte out of the land of T... Focus ↗

6 And they said to him: Come thou and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon. Focus ↗

7 And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and n... Focus ↗

8 And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte: For this cause we are now come to thee, that thou mayst go... Focus ↗

9 Jephte also said to them: If you be come to me sincerely, that I should fight for you against the ch... Focus ↗

10 They answered him: The Lord who heareth these things, he himself is mediator and witness that we wil... Focus ↗

11 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jeph... Focus ↗

12 And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to say in his name, What hast thou to d... Focus ↗

13 And he answered them: I Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the conf... Focus ↗

14 And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to the king of Ammon: Focus ↗

15 Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon: Focus ↗

16 But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea and came into Cades. Focus ↗

17 And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: Suffer me to pass through thy land. But he would... Focus ↗

18 And went round the land of Edom at the side, and the land of Moab: and came over against the east co... Focus ↗

19 So Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and they said to hi... Focus ↗

20 But he also despising the words of Israel, suffered him not to pass through his borders: but gatheri... Focus ↗

21 And the Lord delivered him with all his army into the hands of Israel, and he slew him, and possesse... Focus ↗

22 And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan. Focus ↗

23 So the Lord the God (Elohim) of Israel destroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Israel fighting agains... Focus ↗

24 Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But what the Lord our Go... Focus ↗

25 Unless perhaps thou art better than Balac the son of Sephor king of Moab: or canst shew that he stro... Focus ↗

26 Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in a... Focus ↗

27 Therefore I do not trespass against thee, but thou wrongest me by declaring an unjust war against me... Focus ↗

28 And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the words of Jephte, which he sent him by... Focus ↗

29 Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going round Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha... Focus ↗

30 He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands, Focus ↗

31 Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house, and shall meet me when I return in pe... Focus ↗

32 And Jephte passed over to the children of Ammon, to fight against them: and the Lord delivered them... Focus ↗

33 And he smote them from Aroer till you come to Mennith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel, which is s... Focus ↗

34 And when Jephte returned into Maspha to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with... Focus ↗

35 And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived me, and t... Focus ↗

36 And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me whatsoever th... Focus ↗

37 And she said to her father: Grant me only this which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mo...

38 And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months. And when she was gone with her comrade... Focus ↗

39 And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and... Focus ↗

40 That from year to year the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte... Focus ↗

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Book: Judges
Chapter: Chapter 11 (40 verses)
Version: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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