1The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.[ † ]Joshua 8:15Joshua 18:12 2It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.[ † ]Joshua 18:13Judges 1:26 3Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.[ † ]Joshua 18:131 Kings 9:172 Chronicles 8:5Joshua 21:211 Kings 9:151 Chronicles 7:28
4So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.[ † ]Joshua 17:14
5This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon[ † ]Judges 1:291 Chronicles 7:28-29Joshua 18:132 Chronicles 8:5 6and out toward the Sea. From Michmethath on the north it turned eastward toward Taanath-shiloh and passed by it to Janoah on the east.[ † ]Joshua 17:7 7From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.
8From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Ephraim,[ † ]Joshua 17:8Joshua 17:9 9along with all the cities and villages set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh.[ † ]Joshua 17:9 10But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.[ † ]Joshua 15:63Joshua 17:12-13Judges 1:291 Kings 9:16