²²Likewise, the house of Joseph went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them. ²³And the house of Joseph spied out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz). ²⁴And when the spies saw a man leaving the city,^c they said to him, “Please show us the entrance of the city, and we will deal kindly^d with you.” ²⁵So he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword,^e but they let go the man and all his family. ²⁶And the man went to the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this is its name to this day.

²⁷Manasseh did not drive out Beth-Sean and its towns, or Taanach and its towns, or the inhabitants^f of Dor and its towns, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; the Canaanites^g were determined to live in this land. ²⁸And it happened, when Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites^h to forced labor, but they never totally drove them out. ²⁹Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanitesⁱ living in Gezer, so the Canaanites^j lived in their midst in Gezer.

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Footnotes

cOr “going out from the city”
dOr “do a loyal love”
eLiterally “the mouth of the sword”
fHebrew “inhabitant”
gHebrew “Canaanite”
hHebrew “Canaanite”
iHebrew “Canaanite”
jHebrew “Canaanite”