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Joshua 16:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families; "

Joshua 16:8

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6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

10 They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

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Joshua 17:8

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"The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim."

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Joshua 17:10

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"Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east."

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Deuteronomy 34:2

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"and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,"

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Deuteronomy 3:16

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"To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;"

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Joshua 16:3-6

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"and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea."

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Joshua 19:28

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"and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon."

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From This Chapter

Joshua 16:1

"The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel."

Joshua 16:2

"It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;"

Joshua 16:3

"and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea."

Joshua 16:4

"The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance."

Joshua 16:5

"This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper."

Joshua 16:6

"The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah."

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