16THE ALLOTMENT for the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;H1486H1121H3130H3318H3383H3405H4325H3405H4217H4057H5927H3405H2022H10082Then it went from Bethel to Luz and passed on to Ataroth, the border of the Archites.H3318H1008H3870H5674H1366H757H58523And it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the outskirts of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and ended at the sea.H3381H3220H1366H3311H1366H1032H8481H1507H8444H32204The descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.H1121H3130H4519H669H51575The boundary of the Ephraimites according to their families was thus: on the east side their border was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon.H1366H1121H669H4940H1366H5159H4217H5853H1032H59456Then the boundary went from there to the sea; on the north was Michmethath; then on the east the boundary went out to Taanath-shiloh, and eastward to Janoah,H1366H3318H3220H4366H6828H1366H5437H4217H8387H5674H4217H32397Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, touched Jericho, and ended at the Jordan [River].H3381H3239H5852H5292H6293H3405H3318H33838The border went out from Tappuah westward to the brook Kanah and ended at the [Mediterranean] Sea. This is the inheritance of the Ephraimites by their families,H1366H3212H8599H3220H5158H7071H8444H3220H5159H4294H1121H669H49409With the towns set apart for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.H3995H5892H1121H669H8432H5159H1121H4519H5892H269110But they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and they became slaves required to do forced labor.H3423H3669H3427H1507H3669H3427H7130H669H3117H5647H4522