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Joshua 16:2-8 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

2. Leaving Bethel for Luz, it crossed the ridge to the border of the Archites at Ataroth,

3. and descended westward to the border of the Japhletites, to that of the Lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer, and from there to the sea.

4. Within the heritage of Manasseh and Ephraim, sons of Joseph,

5. the dividing line for the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans ran from east of Ataroth-addar to Upper Beth-horon

6. and thence to the sea. From Michmethath on the north, their boundary curved eastward around Taanath-shiloh, and continued east of it to Janoah;

7. from there it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, and reaching Jericho, it ended at the Jordan.

8. From Tappuah the boundary ran westward to the Wadi Kanah and ended at the sea. This was the heritage of the Ephraimites by their clans,

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