Judges 12:5-6 ▼

5 The men of Gilead captured the shallow crossings of the Jordan River leading back to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said, |Let me cross,| the men of Gilead would ask, |Are you from Ephraim?| If he answered, |No,|

6 they would tell him, |Say the word [shibboleth].| If the fugitive would say [sibboleth], because he couldn't pronounce the word correctly, they would grab him and kill him at the shallow crossings of the Jordan River. At that time 42,000 men from Ephraim died.