Thematic Bible: Dialects of the jews
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After a little while, the people who were standing there came up and told Peter, "Obviously you're also one of them, because your accent gives you away."
they would order him, "Pronounce the word "Shibboleth' right now." If he said "Sibboleth," not being able to pronounce it correctly, they would seize him and slaughter him there at the fords of the Jordan River. During those days 42,000 descendants of Ephraim died that way.