A reading from the Book of Joshua.

The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters

of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.

Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Adiroth, the territory of the Archites.

Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Jafflatites,

as far as the territory of Lower Beth Horan, then to Geyser, and it ends at the sea.

The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows.

The boundary of their inheritance on the east was Adiroth Adder, as far as Upper Beth Horan.

And the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Micmathath. Then on the east,

the boundary turns around toward Tejanaf Shiloh, and passes along beyond it on the east to Genoa. Then it goes down from Genoa to Adiroth and to Nehara and touches Jericho, ending at the

Jordan. From Tapua, the boundary goes westward to the brook Cana and ends at the sea, such as the

inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim, by their clans,

together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance

of the Massenites, all those towns with their villages. However, they did not drive out the

Canaanites who lived in Gieser, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day,

but have been made to do forced labor. Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the

firstborn of Joseph, to Maker, the firstborn of Manasa, the father of Gilead, were allotted

Gilead in Baysian, because he was a man of war. An allotments were made to the rest of the people

of Manasseh by their clans. A Baezer, Helic, Asriel, Shechem, Heifer, and Shemida. These were the male

descendants of Manasa, the son of Joseph, by their clans. Now Zalofah had the son of Heifer,

son of Gilead, son of Maker, son of Manassah, had no sons,

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