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they said to him, “Please say Shibboleth,” and if he said, “Sibboleth”—because he could not pronounce it[a] correctly—they grabbed him and executed him at the fords of Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.

Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon

After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 12:6 Literally “speak it”