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Contemporary English Version

Joshua 16:4

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Inheritance;   Manasseh;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Ephraim, the Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephraim (1);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beth-Horon;   Joshua;   Manasseh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - E'phra-Im,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephraim (1);   Joshua, Book of;   Taanath-Shiloh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yosef, Menashsheh and Efrayim, took their inheritance.
King James Version
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Lexham English Bible
And the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
English Standard Version
The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
New Century Version
So Manasseh and Ephraim, sons of Joseph, received their land.
New English Translation
Joseph's descendants, Manasseh and Ephraim, were assigned their land.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the children of Ioseph, Manasseh and Ephraim tooke their inheritance.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
Complete Jewish Bible
So the descendants of Yosef, M'nasheh and Efrayim took the inheritance.
Darby Translation
And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the people of Manasseh and Ephraim got their land. (Manasseh and Ephraim were sons of Joseph.)
George Lamsa Translation
So the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
Good News Translation
The descendants of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and West Manasseh, received this land as their possession.
Literal Translation
And Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons of Joseph, inherited.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This the children of Ioseph (Manasses & Ephraim) receaued to enheritaunce.
American Standard Version
And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Bible in Basic English
And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the children of Ioseph, Manasses, & Ephraim, toke their inheritaunce.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
King James Version (1611)
So the children of Ioseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim, tooke their inheritance.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasse, took their inheritance.
English Revised Version
And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Berean Standard Bible
So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche cuntreis Manasses and Effraym, the sones of Joseph, weldiden.
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Joseph -- Manasseh and Ephraim -- inherit.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
World English Bible
The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
New King James Version
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
New Living Translation
This was the homeland allocated to the families of Joseph's sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
New Life Bible
The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim received their land.
New Revised Standard
The Josephites—Manasseh and Ephraim—received their inheritance.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it.
Revised Standard Version
The people of Joseph, Manas'seh and E'phraim, received their inheritance.
THE MESSAGE
This is the region from which the people of Joseph—Manasseh and Ephraim—got their inheritance.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

Contextual Overview

1Ephraim and Manasseh are the two tribes descended from Joseph, and the following is a description of the land they received. The southern border of their land started at the Jordan River east of the spring at Jericho. From there it went west through the desert up to the hill country around Bethel. From Bethel it went to Luz and then to the border of the Archites in Ataroth. It continued west down to the land that belonged to the Japhlet clan, then went on to Lower Beth-Horon, Gezer, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 17:14

Cross-References

Genesis 16:4
Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and was hateful to Sarai.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's all your fault! I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant. You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the Lord for this."
Genesis 16:6
Abram said, "All right! She's your slave, and you can do whatever you want with her." But Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.
Genesis 16:8
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."
2 Samuel 6:16
Saul's daughter Michal looked out her window and watched the chest being brought into David's City. But when she saw David jumping and dancing for the Lord , she was disgusted.
Proverbs 30:23
a hateful woman who finds a husband, and a slave who takes the place of the woman who owns her.
1 Corinthians 4:6
Friends, I have used Apollos and myself as examples to teach you the meaning of the saying, "Follow the rules." I want you to stop saying that one of us is better than the other.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. As it fell to them by the lot; by Manasseh is meant the half tribe of Manasseh, one half of that tribe having been settled by Moses on the other side Jordan; and next follows an account of the borders of the inheritance of Ephraim in particular, as that of the half tribe of Manasseh is given in Joshua 17:1.


 
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