Allotment for Ephraim and Manasseh

¹The allotment of land for the descendants of Joseph was from the Jordan by Jericho then east into the wilderness, rising from Jericho to the hill country of Bethel.[#Jos 8:15; 18:12]

²It goes out from Bethel to Luz and passes to the border of Arkite territory at Ataroth.[#Ge 28:19; Jos 18:13]

³It goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, to the border of lower Beth-horon and Gezer, and then goes out to the sea.[#Jos 10:33; 18:13]

⁴So the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.[#Jos 17:14]

⁵The territory of the Ephraimites, according to their clans, was as follows. The border of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth Addar as far as upper Beth-horon.[#Jos 18:13]

⁶The border goes out toward the sea with Mikmethath on the north. It turns eastward toward Taanath Shiloh and passes it on the east toward Janoah.[#Jos 17:7]

⁷It descends from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, touches Jericho, and extends to the Jordan.

⁸From Tappuah the border goes west to the Kanah Ravine and out to the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites according to their clans.[#Jos 17:8–9]

⁹The other cities for the Ephraimites were in the middle of the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.

¹⁰They did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim until this day performing heavy labor as slaves.[#Jdg 1:29; 1Ki 9:16]