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Revised Standard Version

Joshua 16:4

The people of Joseph, Manas'seh and E'phraim, received their inheritance.

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.
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

1 The allotment of the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel; 2 then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to At'aroth, the territory of the Archites; 3 then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japh'letites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-hor'on, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea. 4 The people of Joseph, Manas'seh and E'phraim, received their inheritance.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 17:14

Cross-References

Genesis 16:4
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
Genesis 16:5
And Sar'ai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sar'ai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sar'ai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
Genesis 16:8
And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."
2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
Proverbs 30:23
an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
1 Corinthians 4:6
I have applied all this to myself and Apol'los for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

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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