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From there it ran to Upper Beth-horon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then on to the Mediterranean Sea. From Micmethath on the north, the boundary curved eastward past Taanath-shiloh to the east of Janoah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>From Janoah it turned southward to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and ended at the Jordan River. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>From Tappuah the boundary extended westward, following the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In addition, some towns with their surrounding villages in the territory allocated to the half-tribe of Manasseh were set aside for the tribe of Ephraim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They did not drive the Canaanites out of Gezer, however, so the people of Gezer live as slaves among the people of Ephraim to this day.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:2 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version (also see 18:13); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">From Bethel to Luz.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">16:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the sea;</span><span class="ft"> also in 16:6, 8.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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