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And the men of Ephraim are called together ,
and pass over northward ,
and say to Jephthah , '
Wherefore has thou passed over to fight against the Bene-Ammon ,
and on us hast not called to go with thee ?
thy house we burn over thee with fire .'
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And Jephthah saith unto them , '
A man of great strife I have been (
I and my people )
with the Bene-Ammon ,
and I call you ,
and ye have not saved me out of their hand ,
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and I see that thou art not a saviour ,
and I put my life in my hand ,
and pass over unto the Bene-Ammon ,
and Jehovah giveth them into my hand --
and why have ye come up unto me this day to fight against me ?'
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And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead ,
and fighteth with Ephraim ,
and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim ,
because they said , '
Fugitives of Ephraim [
are ]
ye Gileadites ,
in the midst of Ephraim --
in the midst of Manasseh .'
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And Gilead captureth the passages of the Jordan to Ephraim ,
and it hath been ,
when [
any of ]
the fugitives of Ephraim say , '
Let me pass over ,'
and the men of Gilead say to him , '
An Ephramite thou ?'
and he saith , '
No ;'
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that they say to him , '
Say ,
I pray thee ,
Shibboleth ;'
and he saith , '
Sibboleth ,'
and is not prepared to speak right --
and they seize him ,
and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan ,
and there fall at that time ,
of Ephraim ,
forty and two chiefs .
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years ,
and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth ,
and is buried in [
one of ]
the cities of Gilead .