Read Judges 12:6 (Contemporary English Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Judges 12.6, Judges 12v6, Jg. 12:6. The guards would then tell them to say “Shibboleth,” because they knew that people of Ephraim could say “Sibboleth,” but not “Shibboleth.” If the man said “Sibb…
Other reference formats: Judges 12.6, Judges 12v6, Jg. 12:6.
6 The guards would then tell them to say “Shibboleth,” because they knew that people of Ephraim could say “Sibboleth,” but not “Shibboleth.” If the man said “Sibboleth,” the guards would grab him and kill him right there. Altogether, 42,000 men from Ephraim were killed in the battle and at the Jordan.