Chapter 16
1The 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;
2and it went out from
Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
3and 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.
4The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance.
5The 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;
6and 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;
7and it went down from
Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the
Jordan.
8From 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;
9together 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.
10They 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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