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arabah, Middin, and Secacah, 62 And Nibshan, Gilead, the sonne of Machir, ye sonne of Man-
and the citie of salt, and Engedi: sixe cities with asseh, had no sonnes, but daughters: and these
their villages. 63 Neuerthelesse, the Iebusites that are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and
were the inhabitants of Ierusalem, could not the Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah: Which came
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children of Iudah cast out, but the Iebusites dwell before Eleazar the Priest, and before Ioshua the
with the children of Iudah at Ierusalem vnto this sonne of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The
day. Lord commanded Moses to giue vs an inheritance

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1 And the lot fell to the children of Ioseph commandement of the Lord he gaue them an
from Iorden by Iericho vnto the water of Ieri- inheritance among the brethren of their father.
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cho Eastward, and to the wildernes that goeth And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside
vp from Iericho by the mount Beth-el: 2 And the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the
other side Iorden,
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Because the daughters of
goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and runneth along Manasseh did inherite among his sonnes: and
vnto the borders of Archiataroth, 3 And goeth Manassehs other sonnes had the land of Gilead.
down Westward to the coast of Iaphleti, vnto the 7 So the borders of Manasseh were from Asher to
coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: Michmethah that lieth before Shechem, and this
and the endes thereof are at the Sea. 4 So the border goeth on the right hand, euen vnto the
children of Ioseph, Manasseh and Ephraim tooke inhabitants of En-tappuah. The land of Tappuah
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their inheritance. 5 Also the borders of the belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah beside the
children of Ephraim according to their families, border of Manasseh belongeth to the sonnes of
euen the borders of their inheritance on the Ephraim. Also this border goeth downe vnto the
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Eastside were Atroth-addar, vnto Beth-horon the
vpper. 6 And this border goeth out to the Sea riuer Kanah Southward to the riuer: these cities
vnto Michmethah on the Northside, and this of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh:
border returneth Eastward vnto Taanathshiloh, and the border of Manasseh is on the Northside
and passeth it on the Eastside vnto Ianohah, of the riuer, and the endes of it are at the Sea,
7 And goeth downe from Ianohah to Ataroth, and 10 The South perteyneth to Ephraim, and the
Naarath, and commeth to Iericho, and goeth out North to Manasseh, and the Sea is his border: and
they met together in Asher Northwarde, and in
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at Iorden. And this border goeth from Tappuah Issachar Eastward. 11 And Manasseh had in Is-
Westward vnto the riuer Kanah, and the endes sachar and in Asher, Beth-shean, and her townes,
thereof are at the Sea: this is the inheritance and Ibleam, and her townes, and the inhabitants
of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their of Dor with ye townes thereof, and the inhab-
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families. And the separate cities for the children itants of En-dor with the townes thereof, and
of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the the inhabitants of Thaanach with her townes,
children of Manasseh: all the cities with their and the inhabitants of Megiddo with the townes
villages. 10 And they cast not out the Canaanite of the same, euen three countreis. 12 Yet the
that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanite dwelt children of Manasseh coulde not destroy those
among the Ephraimites vnto this day, and serued cities, but the Canaanites dwelled still in that
vnder tribute. land. 13 Neuerthelesse, when the children of
Israel were strong, they put the Canaanites vnder
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1 This was also the lot of the tribe of Manasseh: the children of Ioseph spake vnto Ioshua, saying,
for he was the first borne of Ioseph, to wit, Why hast thou giuen me but one lot, and one
of Machir the first borne of Manasseh, and the portion to inherite, seeing I am a great people,
father of Gilead: nowe because he was a man for as much as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto?
of warre, he had Gilead and Bashan. 2 And 15 Ioshua then answered them, If thou be much
also of the rest of the sonnes of Manasseh by people, get thee vp to the wood, and cut trees for
their families, euen of the sonnes of Abiezer, thy selfe there in the lande of the Perizzites, and
and of the sonnes of Helek, and of ye sonnes of the gyants, if mount Ephraim be too narowe
of Azriel, and of the sonnes of Shechem, and 16
of the sonnes of Hepher, and of the sonnes of for thee. Then the children of Ioseph saide,
Shemida: these were the males of Manasseh, the The mountaine will not be ynough for vs: and
sonne of Ioseph according to their families. But all the Canaanites that dwell in the lowe countrey
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Zelophehad the sonne of Hephir, the sonne of haue charets of yron, aswell they in Beth-shean,