²² Moreover, I have given to ^(A)you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope^[a] that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(A)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

^32 (A)As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land ^(B)that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.^[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

^2 (A)though Judah became strong among his brothers and a ^(B)chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

²³ So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?

¹⁴ Then ^(A)the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but ^(B)one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am ^(C)a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?” ¹⁵ And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and ^(D)the Rephaim, since ^(E)the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.” ¹⁶ The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have ^(F)chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in ^(G)the Valley of Jezreel.” ¹⁷ Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, ¹⁸ but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, ^(H)though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

¹⁷ but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is ^(A)the firstfruits of his strength. ^(B)The right of the firstborn is his.

²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.