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| 16:1 |
The allotment of the Josephites went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;
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| 16:2 |
then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites;
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| 16:3 |
then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.
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| 16:4 |
The Josephites-- Manasseh and Ephraim-- received their inheritance.
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| 16:5 |
The territory of the Ephraimites by their families was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,
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| 16:6 |
and the boundary goes from there to the sea; on the north is Michmethath; then on the east the boundary makes a turn toward Taanath-shiloh, and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,
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| 16:7 |
then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.
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| 16:8 |
From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the Wadi Kanah, and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites by their families,
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| 16:9 |
together with the towns that were set apart for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.
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| 16:10 |
They did not, however, drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer: so the Canaanites have lived within Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
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