5 A terra dada à tribo de Efraim: O seu limite a leste começava em Atarote-Adar. Dali alongava-se até Bete-Horom de Cima e ia até ao Mar Mediterrâneo. O limite norte começava no mar e seguia em direcção do oriente passando junto a Micmetá e continuando por Taanate-Silo e Janoa. De Janoa descia para sul, para Atarote e Naarate, tocava Jericó e acabava no rio Jordão. A metade ocidental do limite norte ia desde Tapua, e depois ao longo do ribeiro de Caná até ao Mediterrâneo. Também foram dadas a Efraim algumas das cidades que estavam no território da meia-tribo de Manassés.

10 Os cananeus que viviam em Gezer nunca foram expulsos de lá, por isso vivem ainda como escravos no meio do povo de Efraim.

1 And the lot came out for the sons 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 Beth-el;

2 and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth-horon the nether, even to Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the sea.

4 And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

5 And the border of the sons of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper;

6 and the border went out westward at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah;

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

8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families;

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

10 And they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become slave labor.