The test at the Jordan ford

4Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim down, because they had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.”

5And Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan against Ephraim. And whenever the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

6Then they said to him, “Please say ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not say it that way. So they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.