Judges:12:1-7
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@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim were called together, and went northward, and said unto Yiphthach, Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call for us to go with thee? thy house will we burn over thee with fire.
sf_leeser_rev1@Judges:12:2 @ And Yiphthach said unto them, I and my people were greatly engaged in strife with the children of Ammon; and I called you, but ye helped me not out of their hand.
sf_leeser_rev1@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that ye helped me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over to the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand; and why then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
sf_leeser_rev1@Judges:12:4 @ Then Yiphthach gathered together all the men of Gilad, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilad smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim: Gilad is in the midst, between Ephraim and Menasseh.
sf_leeser_rev1@Judges:12:5 @ And the Giladites seized on the passages of the Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it came to pass, when the Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me pass over; that the men of Gilad said unto him, Art thou an Ephrathite? and if he said, No;
sf_leeser_rev1@Judges:12:6 @ Then said they unto him, Do say, Shibboleth; but when he said, Sibboleth, and was not able to pronounce it correctly, they laid hold of him and slew him on the passages of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
sf_leeser_rev1@Judges:12:7 @ And Yiphthach judged Israel six years; and then died Yiphthach the Giladite, and was buried in the cities of Gilad.
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