Joshua 16 YLT
Summary: The territory allotted to the descendants of Joseph begins to be described, starting with the southern boundary shared broadly by Ephraim and Manasseh before narrowing to Ephraim's specific portion, running from Jericho's region westward toward the Mediterranean with its cities and villages. The chapter notes, however, that the Ephraimites failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, who remained among them as forced laborers rather than being expelled, an early sign of the incomplete conquest that would trouble Israel for generations.
1And the lot for the sons of Joseph goeth out from Jordan by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness going up from Jericho in the hill-country of Beth-El,
2and hath gone out from Beth-El to Luz, and passed over unto the border of Archi to Ataroth,
3and gone down westward unto the border of Japhleti, unto the border of Beth-Horon the lower, and unto Gezer, and its outgoings have been at the sea.
4And the sons of Joseph--Manasseh and Ephraim--inherit.
5And the border of the sons of Ephraim is by their families; and the border of their inheritance is on the east, Atroth-Addar unto Beth-Horon the upper;
6and the border hath gone out at the sea, to Michmethah on the north, and the border hath gone round eastward to Taanath-Shiloh, and passed over it eastward to Janohah,
7and gone down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and touched against Jericho, and gone out at the Jordan.
8From Tappuah the border goeth westward unto the brook of Kanah, and its outgoings have been at the sea: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, for their families.
9And the separate cities of the sons of Ephraim are in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages;
10and they have not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and is to tribute--a servant.
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