16:1 The lot that fell to the Josephites extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho east of the wilderness; then the boundary went up from Jericho to the heights at Bethel.
16:2 Leaving Bethel for Luz, it crossed the ridge to the border of the Archites at Ataroth,
16:3 and descended westward to the border of the Japhletites, to that of the Lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer, and from there to the sea.
16:4 Within the heritage of Manasseh and Ephraim, sons of Joseph,
16:5 the dividing line for the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans ran from east of Ataroth-addar to Upper Beth-horon
16:6 and thence to the sea. From Michmethath on the north, their boundary curved eastward around Taanath-shiloh, and continued east of it to Janoah;
16:7 from there it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, and reaching Jericho, it ended at the Jordan.
16:8 From Tappuah the boundary ran westward to the Wadi Kanah and ended at the sea. This was the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans,
16:9 including the villages that belonged to each city set aside for the Ephraimites within the heritage of the Manassites.
16:10 But they did not dispossess the Canaanites living in Gezer; they live within Ephraim to the present day, though they have been put to forced labor.
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