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Joshua 16:1-5 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. The allotment of land for the descendants of Joseph was from the Jordan by Jericho then east into the wilderness, rising from Jericho to the hill country of Bethel.

2. It goes out from Bethel to Luz and passes to the border of Arkite territory at Ataroth.

3. It goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, to the border of lower Beth Horon and Gezer, and then goes out to the sea.

4. So the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

5. The territory of the Ephraimites, according to their clans, was as follows. The border of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth Addar as far as upper Beth Horon.

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