Marsha

I have read interpretations were it is strongly indicated that Jephthah gave his dauther to serve God all her life rather than killing her. This makes sense to me since God views giving killing humans for ‘sacrificial’ purposes as murder. If Jephthah had killed his daughter as a sacrifice, then he would be committiing the sin of murder, as well as desicrating the holiness of the alter! Murdering his daughter, weither she was willing or not, would be sacriligious and sinful, totally displeasing to God.