6 No, i Galaaditi gli dicevano: Deh! di’ Scibbolet; ma egli diceva: Sibbolet; e non accertava a profferir dirittamente. Ed essi lo prendevano, e lo scannavano a’ passi del Giordano. Così in quel tempo caddero morti di Efraim quarantaduemila uomini.
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they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.’ ” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
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