Joshua

¹ The land allotted to the Josephites had a frontier starting from the Jordan at Jericho, east of the Waters of Jericho, near the desert, extending from Jericho up through the highlands to Bethel,

² then from Bethel to Luz, and along to Ataroth on the frontier of the Archites,

³ from which it came down west to the frontier of the Japhletites, the frontier of Lower Beth-horon and Gezer, ending at the sea.

⁴ Such was the property received by the Josephites, that is Manasseh and Ephraim, as their inheritance.

⁵ The territory of the Ephraimites, according to their clans, had a frontier to the east running from Ashtaroth to Upper Beth-horon.

⁶ westward the frontier ran to Michmethath on the north, then round east to Taanath-shiloh, and on to the east of Janoah,

⁷ down to Ataroth and Naarah, and as far as Jericho, ending at the Jordan,

⁸ westward the frontier ran from Tappuah to the Kanah Valley, ending at the sea. Such was the property inherited by the tribe of Ephraim, according to their clans,

⁹ together with the towns set aside for the Ephraimites in the territory of the Manassites, all these towns and their villages.

¹⁰ They did not evict the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among the Ephraimites, as they do to this day, though they have had to slave for them.