Isaiah 29:21Catholic Public Domain VersionFor they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain. See the chapter |
they would ask him, then say 'Shibboleth,' which is translated as 'ear of grain.' But he would answer 'Sibboleth,' not being able to express the word for an ear of grain in the same letters. And immediately apprehending him, they would cut his throat, at the same crossing point of the Jordan. And in that time of Ephraim, forty-two thousand fell.