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1. Ephraim’s Inheritance

2. 1USTThe Israelite leaders assigned land to the two tribes that were descendants of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh. The southern border of this land started at the city of Jericho by the Jordan River. It went through the springs east of Jericho and up into the desolate area in the hill country around the city of Bethel.BSBBSB: The 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.
3. 2USTFrom Bethel it went to the city of Luz and then to the city of Ataroth. That city was in the territory where the Arkite people group lived.BSBBSB: It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.
4. 3USTFrom there it extended west to the edge of the land where the Japhletite people group lived. It then went farther west to the area near the city of Lower Beth Horon. From there it continued west to the city of Gezer and from there to the Great Sea.BSBBSB: Then 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.
5. 4USTThat was the territory that the descendants of Joseph, the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim, received as their permanent possession.BSBBSB: So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.
6. 5USTThe border of the land that the leaders assigned to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim started at the town of Ataroth Addar. From there, it went west to Upper Beth Horon.BSBBSB: This 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
7. 6USTFrom there it headed west and went north of the town of Mikmethath. Then it turned eastward toward the town of Taanath Shiloh and went east of the town of Janoah.BSBBSB: and out toward the Sea. From Michmethath on the north it turned eastward toward Taanath-shiloh and passed by it to Janoah on the east.
8. 7USTThen it continued from Janoah to the towns of Ataroth and Naarah. From there it went to the city of Jericho, and it ended at the Jordan River.BSBBSB: From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.
9. 8USTThe northern border extended west from the town of Tappuah to the valley of Kanah and from there to the Great Sea. This was the land that the Israelite leaders assigned to all the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.BSBBSB: From 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,
10. 9USTThe leaders assigned some cities and their dependent villages to the people of Ephraim that were actually within the territory of the tribe of Manasseh. Those cities were part of their total territory.BSBBSB: along with all the cities and villages set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh.
11. 10USTThe people of the tribe of Ephraim could not force the Canaanites who were living in Gezer to leave. So those Canaanites still live there. However, the people of Ephraim did force them to become their slaves.BSBBSB: But 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.

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