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Judges 12:6-8
Good News Translation
Judges 12:6-8
Good News Translation
6 they would tell him to say “Shibboleth.” But he would say “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would grab him and kill him there at one of the Jordan River crossings. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.
7 Jephthah led Israel for six years. Then he died and was buried in his hometown[a] in Gilead.
Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
8 After Jephthah, Ibzan from Bethlehem led Israel.
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- Judges 12:7 One ancient translation his hometown; Hebrew the towns.
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