Every year<n id="1" /> Israelite women commemorate<n id="2" /> the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Gilead stayed put<n id="1" /> beyond the Jordan River.p> <p class="poetry">As for Dan &#8211; why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Asher remained<n id="3" /> on the seacoast,p> <p class="poetry">he stayed<n id="4" /> by his harbors.<n id="5" />p>

He said to them,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Out of the one who eats came something to eat;p> <p class="poetry">out of the strong one came something sweet.&#8221;p> <p class="bodyblock">They could not solve the riddle for three days.p>

However, she<n id="1" /> got angry at him<n id="2" /> and went home<n id="3" /> to her father&#8217;s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

His father-in-law, the girl&#8217;s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

The people worshiped<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> throughout Joshua&#8217;s lifetime and as long as the elderly men<n id="2" /> who outlived him remained alive. These men had witnessed<n id="3" /> all the great things the <sc>Lordsc> had done for Israel.<n id="4" />