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Judges 12:5-7
New International Version - UK
Judges 12:5-7
New International Version - UK
5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, ‘Let me cross over,’ the men of Gilead asked him, ‘Are you an Ephraimite?’ If he replied, ‘No,’ 6 they said, ‘All right, say “Shibboleth”.’ If he said, ‘Sibboleth’, because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
7 Jephthah led[a] Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.
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- Judges 12:7 Traditionally judged; also in verses 8-14
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