[5] And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; [6] Then said now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.