1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at
Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up
from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel; 2 and it went out from
Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the
border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and the goings out of it were
at the sea. 4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance. 5 The border of the children of Ephraim according to their
families was thus: the border of their inheritance eastward was
Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper; 6 and the border went out westward
at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward to Taanath
Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah; 7 and it went down from
Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the
Jordan. 8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of
Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;
9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of
Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the
cities with their villages. 10 They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who
lived in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day,
and are become servants to do forced labor.
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