| Chapter
16 |
| 1 | And
the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water
of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout
mount Bethel, |
| 2 | And goeth
out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to
Ataroth, |
| 3 | And goeth down
westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and
to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at the sea. |
| 4 | So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and
Ephraim, took their inheritance. |
| 5
| And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families
was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was
Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper; |
| 6 | And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on
the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and
passed by it on the east to Janohah; |
|
7 | And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and
came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. |
| 8 | The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river
Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. |
| 9 | And the separate cities for the children
of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the
cities with their villages. |
| 10
| And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the
Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under
tribute. |
