Joshua 16:1–10

The Allotment for Ephraim and Manasseh

16The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, ⁱinto the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel. ²Then ^jgoing from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites. ³Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower ^kBeth-horon, then to ^lGezer, and it ends at the sea.

^4mThe people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

⁵The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was ⁿAtaroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon, ⁶and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is ^oMichmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah, ⁷then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and ^pto Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan. ⁸From ^qTappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans, ⁹together with ^qthe towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages. ¹⁰However, ^rthey did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made ^sto do forced labor.