[1] The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho,
at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from
Jericho through the hill-country to Bethel; [2] and it went out from Bethel
to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth; [3] and
it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of
Beth-horon the nether, even to Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the
sea. [4] The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance. [5] The border of the children of Ephraim according to their
families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was
Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper; [6] and the border went out
westward at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward
to Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah; [7] and it
went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho,
and went out at the Jordan. [8] From Tappuah the border went along westward
to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. This is
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their
families; [9] together with the cities which were set apart for the
children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. [10] They didn`t drive out
the Canaanites who lived in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of
Ephraim to this day, and are become servants to do forced labor.
