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How did the men of Gilead test if a man was from Ephraim?

They would tell him to say "Shibboleth." And if he said, "Sibboleth," (for he could not pronounce the word correctly), the Gileadites would seize him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. [12:5; 12:6]