Ephraim’s Inheritance

16 Then the lot for the sons of Joseph went out from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into ^(A)the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel. ² And it went out from Bethel to Luz and ^(B)passed on to the border of the Archites at Ataroth. ³ Then it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of lower ^(C)Beth-horon even to ^(D)Gezer, and ^[a]it ended at the sea.

⁴ So the ^(E)sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance. ⁵ Now this was the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance eastward was ^(F)Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon. ⁶ Then the border went westward at ^(G)Michmethath on the north, and the border turned about eastward to Taanath-shiloh and passed on beyond it to the east of Janoah. ⁷ And it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to ^(H)Naarah and reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan. ⁸ From ^(I)Tappuah the border continued westward to the ^[b]brook of Kanah, and ^[c]it ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families, ⁹ together with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ^10 (J)But they did not dispossess the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so ^(K)the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and they became forced laborers.