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And when I saw that you would not deliver me ,
I took my life in my hand ,
and crossed over against the Ammonites ,
and the LORD gave them into my hand ;
why then have you come up to me this day ,
to fight against me ?"
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Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with E '
phraim ;
and the men of Gilead smote E '
phraim ,
because they said , "
You are fugitives of E '
phraim ,
you Gileadites ,
in the midst of E '
phraim and Manas '
seh ."
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And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the E '
phraimites .
And when any of the fugitives of E '
phraim said , "
Let me go over ,"
the men of Gilead said to him , "
Are you an E '
phraimite ?"
When he said , "
No ,"
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they said to him , "
Then say Shibboleth ,"
and he said , "
Sibboleth ,"
for he could not pronounce it right ;
then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan .
And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E '
phraimites .