The Allotment of Ephraim and Manasseh

¹ The allotment of the descendants¹ of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, at the waters of Jericho to the east, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;

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² it continues from Bethel to Luz, and it passes along to the territory of the Arkites¹ at Ataroth.

1. Hebrew “Arkite”

³ Then it goes down, to the west, to the territory of the Japhletites,¹ up to the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and ⌞it ends⌟² at the sea.

1. Hebrew “Japhletite”
2. Literally “the goings out of it were”

⁴ And the descendants¹ of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

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⁵ This was the border of the descendants¹ of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance to the east was Ataroth Addar, up to Upper Beth-horon.

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⁶ The border continues to the sea; from Micmethath to the north, the border turns to the east to Taanath Shiloh, and it passes along it from the east to Janoah.

⁷ Then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah; it touches Jericho and ends at the Jordan;

⁸ from Tappuah the border goes to the west, to the wadi¹ of Kanah, and ⌞it ends⌟² at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants³ of Ephraim according to their families,

1. A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
2. Literally “the goings out of it were”
3. Or “sons”

⁹ with the cities that were set apart for the descendants¹ of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants² of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.

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¹⁰ But they did not drive out the Canananites¹ who were dwelling in Gezer, and so the Canaanites² live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, but they became forced laborers.

1. Hebrew “Canaanite”
2. Hebrew “Canaanite”