Joshua 16

¹ The lot that fell to the Josephites extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho east of the desert; then the boundary went up from Jericho to the heights at Bethel.

² Leaving Bethel for Luz, it crossed the ridge to the border of the Archites at Ataroth,

³ and descended westward to the border of the Japhletites, to that of the Lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer, ending thence at the sea.

⁴ Within the heritage of Manasseh and Ephraim, sons of Joseph,

⁵ the dividing line for the heritage of the clans of the Ephraimites ran from east of Ataroth-addar to Upper Bethhoron

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;

⁷ from there it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, and skirting Jericho, it ended at the Jordan.

⁸ From Tappuah the boundary ran westward to the Wadi Kanah and ended at the sea. This was the heritage of the clans of the Ephraimites,

⁹ including the villages that belonged to each city set aside for the Ephraimites within the territory of the Manassehites.

¹⁰ But they did not drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, who live on within Ephraim to the present day, though they have been impressed as laborers.