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Then the men of Ephraim gathered together ,
crossed over toward Zaphon ,
and said to Jephthah , "
Why did you cross over to fight against the people of Ammon ,
and did not call us to go with you ?
We will burn your house down on you with fire !"
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And Jephthah said to them , "
My people and I were in a great struggle with the people of Ammon ;
and when I called you ,
you did not deliver me out of their hands .
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So when I saw that you would not deliver me ,
I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the people of Ammon ;
and the LORD delivered them into my hand .
Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me ?"
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Now Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim .
And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim ,
because they said , "
You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites ."
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The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived .
And when any Ephraimite who escaped said , "
Let me cross over ,"
the men of Gilead would say to him , "
Are you an Ephraimite ?"
If he said , "
No ,"
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then they would say to him , "
Then say , "
Shibboleth '!"
And he would say , "
Sibboleth ,"
for he could not 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 .