²² Now the tribes of Joseph^(A) attacked Bethel,^(B) and the Lord was with them. ²³ When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz),^{(C) 24} the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.^(D)” ²⁵ So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared^(E) the man and his whole family. ²⁶ He then went to the land of the Hittites,^(F) where he built a city and called it Luz,^(G) which is its name to this day.

³⁵ And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(A) Aijalon^(B) and Shaalbim,^(C) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. ³⁶ The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass^(D) to Sela^(E) and beyond.^(F)