Joshua 17:13-15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹³ However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they imposed forced labour on the Canaanites but did not drive them out completely.^(A)

Joseph’s Additional Inheritance

¹⁴ Joseph’s descendants said to Joshua, ‘Why did you allot us only one tribal territory as an inheritance? We have many people, because the Lord has been blessing us greatly.’

¹⁵ ‘If you have so many people,’ Joshua replied to them, ‘go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.’