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.

However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

She 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.”

After 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.