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Ephraim: A Tribe of Israel: Territory Allotted To, After the Conquest of Canaan Joshua 16:5–9

This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon / and out toward the Sea. From Michmethath on the north it turned eastward toward Taanath-shiloh and passed by it to Janoah on the east. / From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.

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Ephraim: A Tribe of Israel: Territory Allotted To, After the Conquest of Canaan Joshua 17:9, 10, 15–18

From there the border continued southward to the Brook of Kanah. There were cities belonging to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh, but the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook and ended at the Sea. / Ephraim’s territory was to the south, and Manasseh’s was to the north, having the Sea as its border and adjoining Asher on the north and Issachar on the east. / Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

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Ephraim: A Tribe of Israel: Territory Allotted To, After the Conquest of Canaan 1 Chronicles 7:28, 29

Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages. / And along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

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