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The lot for the people of Joseph went from the Jordan near Jericho, east of the spring of Jericho, north through the desert mountains to Bethel. |
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It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) to the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth. |
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It then descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites to the region of Lower Beth Horon and on to Gezer, ending at the Sea. |
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This is the region from which the people of Joseph--Manasseh and Ephraim--got their inheritance. |
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Ephraim's territory by clans: The boundary of their inheritance went from Ataroth Addar in the east to Upper Beth Horon |
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and then west to the Sea. From Micmethath on the north it turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and passed along, still eastward, to Janoah. |
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The border then descended from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah; it touched Jericho and came out at the Jordan. |
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From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of Ephraim by clans, |
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including the cities set aside for Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh--all those towns and their villages. |
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But they didn't get rid of the Canaanites who were living in Gezer. Canaanites are still living among the people of Ephraim, but they are made to do forced labor. |
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