Joshua 16

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Land for Ephraim and Manasseh

16 This is the ·land [allotment] the ·tribe [^Lsons; descendants] of Joseph received. It started at the Jordan River near Jericho and continued to the ·waters [springs] of Jericho, just east of the city. The border went up from Jericho to the ·mountains [hill country] of Bethel [^Clocated northwest of Jersusalem]. ² Then it continued from Bethel ·(also called Luz) [or to Luz] ·to [crossing over to] the Arkite border at Ataroth. ³ From there it went west to the ·border [^Lterritory] of the Japhletites and continued to the area of the Lower Beth Horon. Then it went to Gezer and ended at the sea.

⁴ So Manasseh and Ephraim, sons of Joseph, received their ·land [inheritance].

⁵ This is the land that was given to the ·family groups [clans] of Ephraim: Their border [^Lof their inheritance] started at Ataroth Addar in the east, went to Upper Beth Horon, ⁶ and then to the sea. From Micmethath [^Lon the north] it turned eastward toward Taanath Shiloh and ·continued eastward [or passing by it on the east] to Janoah. ⁷ Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah. It continued until it touched Jericho and stopped at the Jordan River. ⁸ The border went from Tappuah west to Kanah ·Ravine [Valley; or Brook] and ended at the sea. This is all the ·land [inheritance] that was given to each ·family group [clan] in the tribe of the Ephraimites. ⁹ ·Many of the towns were actually within Manasseh’s borders, but the people of Ephraim got those towns and their villages [^L…and the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages]. ¹⁰ The Ephraimites could not ·force the Canaanites to leave [drive out the Canaanites living in] Gezer, so the Canaanites still live among the Ephraimites today, but they became ·slaves [forced laborers] of the Ephraimites.