She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
b.    God specifically forbade human sacrifice in the Mosaic Law and called it an abomination in His sight (Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:10). That a judge in Israel such as Jephthah would have practiced it is unthinkable.