 And it was a custom in Israel. That is, that someone would be set aside to perpetual virginity, to serve the Lord. I guess the counterpart of that today we would look on as some that we call nuns. Verse 40 says, And that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah. They don't speak of her as dead, but as living. And the word lament here may be translated to talk with. They went yearly to see her.