Joshua 16

Joseph’s Inheritance

16The allotment for the descendants of Joseph ⁱwent from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness ^jascending from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. ²From Bethel it went to Luz and proceeded to the border of the Archites by Ataroth. ^k3It then descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, ^land ended at the Mediterranean Sea. ⁴So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, ^mreceived their inheritance. ⁿ

Ephraim’s Inheritance

⁵This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:

The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar ^oon the east of Upper Beth-horon. ⁶In the north the border went westward from Michmethath; ^pit turned eastward from Taanath-shiloh and passed it east of Janoah. ⁷From Janoah it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, ^qand then reached Jericho and went to the Jordan. ⁸From Tappuah the border ^rwent westward along the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. ^s

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans, together with ⁹the cities set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh—all these cities with their villages. ¹⁰But, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. ^tSo the Canaanites live in Ephraim to this day, ^ubut they are forced laborers.