Judges 11:38
He said,“You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.
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35When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said,“Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! You have brought me disaster! I made an oath to the LORD, and I cannot break it.”
36She said to him,“My father, since you made an oath to the LORD, do to me as you promised. After all, the LORD vindicated you before your enemies, the Ammonites.”
37She then said to her father,“Please grant me this one wish. For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
- Judg 11:39-402 verses83%
39After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin. Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.
40Every year Israelite women commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.
- Judg 19:2-54 verses78%
2However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
3her husband came after her, hoping he could convince her to return. He brought with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly.
4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.
5On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law,“Have a bite to eat for some energy, then you can go.”
- Gen 38:14-207 verses76%
14So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah.(She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)
15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
16He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”
17He replied,“I’ll send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked,“Will you give me a pledge until you send it?”
18He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
19She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.
20Then Judah had his friend Hirah the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge, but Hirah could not find her.
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13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.
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16She told them,“Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way.”
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55But Rebekah’s brother and her mother replied,“Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”
- Deut 22:14-152 verses73%
14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
15Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.
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28He said to her,“Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.
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18When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.
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20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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13surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the LORD is afflicting me!”
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38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
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22So he returned to Judah and said,“I couldn’t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said,‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”
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17Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying,‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.
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21She said,“I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.
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8He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said,“Get some energy. Wait until later in the day to leave!” So they ate a meal together.
9When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him,“Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.”
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7Ruth Returns with Naomi Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah,
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2Her father said,“I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”
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16Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him,“Go back!” So he returned home.
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27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
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16Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever been physically intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.
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22But Hannah did not go up with them, because she had told her husband,“Not until the boy is weaned. Then I will bring him so that he may appear before the LORD. And he will remain there from then on.”
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8A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
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16But she said to him,“No I won’t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!” But he refused to listen to her.
17He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”
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13How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools in Israel! Just speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
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16and she returned to her mother-in-law. Ruth Returns to NaomiWhen Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked,“How did things turn out for you, my daughter?” Ruth told her about all the man had done for her.
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3After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.
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3Then I told her,“You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or become joined to another man, and I also will wait for you.”
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7Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”
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58So they called Rebekah and asked her,“Do you want to go with this man?” She replied,“I want to go.”
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23He said,“Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said,“Everything’s fine.”
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2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.