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Judges 12:6-10 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

6. they would ask him to say “Shibboleth.” If he said “Sibboleth,” not pronouncing it exactly right, they would seize him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell at that time.

7. Jephthah judged Israel for six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

8. After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

9. He had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, while bringing in thirty wives for his sons from outside the family. He judged Israel for seven years.

10. Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.

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