Joshua 16

¹The 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.[#This line formed the southern boundary of Ephraim and the northern boundaries of Benjamin and of Dan.]

²Leaving Bethel for Luz, it crossed the ridge to the border of the Archites at Ataroth,

³and descended westward to the border of the Japhletites, to that of the Lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer, and from there to the sea.[#Jos 10:10, 33.]

Ephraim.

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

⁵the dividing line for the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans ran from east of Ataroth-addar to Upper Beth-horon[#: separating Ephraim from Manasseh. Ephraim’s northern border (v. 5) is given in an east-to-west direction; its eastern border (vv. 6–7) in a north-to-south direction.; #Jos 18:13.]

⁶and thence to the sea. From Michmethath on the north, their boundary curved eastward around Taanath-shiloh, and continued east of it to Janoah;[#Jos 17:7–9.]

⁷from there it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, and reaching Jericho, it ended at the Jordan.

⁸From Tappuah the boundary ran westward to the Wadi Kanah and ended at the sea. This was the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans,

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

¹⁰But 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.[#Jgs 1:29.]