Chapter 16 — The Old Testament Book of Joshua

The Joseph Tribes. ()

¹ The lot that fell to the Josephites extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho east of the wilderness; 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, and from there to the sea. ()

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

Ephraim.

⁵ the dividing line () for the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans ran from east of Ataroth-addar to Upper Beth-horon ()

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 reaching 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 Ephraimites by their clans,

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

¹⁰ But they did not dispossess the Canaanites living in Gezer; () they live within Ephraim to the present day, though they have been put to forced labor.