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Territory of Ephraim

¹ Then the lot (allotment) for the sons of Joseph went from the Jordan Valley at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into ^(C1)the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.² Then it went from Bethel to Luz, and ^(C1)continued to Ataroth, the border of the Archites.³ It went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the outskirts of lower ^(C1)Beth-horon, then to ^(C2)Gezer, and it ended at the sea.

⁴ The ^(C1)sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.⁵ Now this was the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families: on the east side the border of their inheritance was ^(C1)Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon.⁶ Then the border went westward at ^(C1)Michmethath on the north, and turned eastward to Taanath-shiloh and continued beyond it to the east of Janoah.⁷ It went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to ^(C1)Naarah, touched Jericho and ended at the Jordan.⁸ The border continued from ^(C1)Tappuah westward to the Brook Kanah, and it ended at the Mediterranean sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families (clans),⁹ with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim within the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.^10 (C1)But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so ^(C2)the Canaanites live among Ephraim to this day, and they became forced laborers.