And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and lamented her virginity upon the mountains.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Mountains. Such places were frequented in times of mourning, Jeremias xxxi. 15., and Isaias xv. 2. (Calmet)
Jepthe allowed his daughter this short respite, without any offence, (Deuteronomy xxiii. 21,) before he immolated her, (Menochius) or before he debarred her from the society of men. (Grotius)
