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And Jephthahsaid unto them, I and my peoplewere at greatstrifewith the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
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And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORDdelivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of GileadsmoteEphraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraimamong the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
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And the Gileaditestook the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escapedsaid, Let me go over; that the men of Gileadsaid unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
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Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he saidSibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimitesforty and twothousand.