then they would say to him, “Then say, (A)‘Shibboleth’!”[a] And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [b]pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 12:6 Lit. a flowing stream; used as a test of dialect
  2. Judges 12:6 Lit. speak so

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