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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Joshua 16 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Joshua 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/15.htm" title="Joshua 15">◄</a> Joshua 16 <a href="../joshua/17.htm" title="Joshua 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Territory Assigned to Ephraim and West Manasseh</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_16_1"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.1" class="v6_16_1">1</span>The southern boundary of the land assigned to the descendants of Joseph started from the Jordan near Jericho, at a point east of the springs of Jericho, and went into the desert. It went from Jericho up into the hill country as far as Bethel. </span><span class="v6_16_2"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.2" class="v6_16_2">2</span>From Bethel it went to Luz, passing on to Ataroth Addar, where the Archites lived. </span><span class="v6_16_3"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.3" class="v6_16_3">3</span>It then went west to the area of the Japhletites, as far as the area of Lower Beth Horon. It went on from there to Gezer and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_16_4"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.4" class="v6_16_4">4</span>The descendants of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and West Manasseh, received this land as their possession.</span></p><h3 class="s">Ephraim</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_16_5"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.5" class="v6_16_5">5</span>This was the territory of the Ephraimite families: their border ran from Ataroth Addar eastward to Upper Beth Horon, </span><span class="v6_16_6"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.6" class="v6_16_6">6</span>and from there to the Mediterranean Sea. Michmethath was on their north. East of there the border bent toward Taanath Shiloh and went past it on the east to Janoah. </span><span class="v6_16_7"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.7" class="v6_16_7">7</span>Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, reaching Jericho and ending at the Jordan. </span><span class="v6_16_8"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.8" class="v6_16_8">8</span>The border went west from Tappuah to the stream Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the land given to the families of the tribe of Ephraim as their possession, </span><span class="v6_16_9"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.9" class="v6_16_9">9</span>along with some towns and villages that were within the borders of Manasseh, but given to the Ephraimites. </span><span class="v6_16_10"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.16.10" class="v6_16_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.16.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among the Ephraimites to this day, but they have been forced to work as slaves.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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