Dual Panel1This is the lot that fell to the sons of Joseph: the boundary runs from the Jordan at Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho by the wilderness, and goes up from Jericho into the hill-country to Bethel.
2It runs on from Bethel to Luz and crosses the Archite border at Ataroth.
3Westwards it descends to the boundary of the Japhletites as far as the boundary of Lower Beth-horon and Gezer; its limit is the sea.
4Here Manasseh and Ephraim the sons of Joseph received their holding.
5This was the boundary of the Ephraimites family by family: their eastern boundary ran from Ataroth-addar up to Upper Beth-horon.
6It continued westwards to Michmethath on the north, going round by the east of Taanath-shiloh and passing by it on the east of Janoah.
7It descends from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarath, touches Jericho and continues to the Jordan,
8and from Tappuah it goes westwards by the wadi of Kanah; and its limit is the sea. This is the holding of the tribe of Ephraim family by family.
9There were also towns reserved for the Ephraimites within the holding of the Manassites, each of these towns with its hamlets.
10They did not however drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; the Canaanites have lived among the Ephraimites to the present day but have been subject to forced labour.