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Joshua 16 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Ephraim’s Inheritance

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Then the lot for the sons of Joseph went out from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:2 - And it went out from Bethel to Luz and passed on to the border of the Archites at Ataroth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:3 - Then it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of lower Beth-horon even to Gezer, and [fn]it ended at the sea.
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So the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - Now this was the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 - Then the border went westward at Michmethath on the north, and the border turned about eastward to Taanath-shiloh and passed on beyond it to the east of Janoah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:7 - And it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah and reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - From Tappuah the border continued westward to the [fn]brook of Kanah, and [fn]it ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - But they did not dispossess the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and they became forced laborers.
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Lit the goings out of it were
Or wadi
Lit the goings out of it were
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