translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: Heb “The lot went out to the sons of Joseph from the Jordan [at] Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, the desert going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.” map For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Heb “it”; the referent (the southern border) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: In the Hebrew text the place name “Luz” has the directive ending, indicating that the border went from Bethel to Luz. Elsewhere Luz and Bethel appear to be names for the same site (cf. Judg 1:23 ), but here they appear to be distinct. Note that the NIV translates “from Bethel (that is, Luz)” here, following the reading of the LXX, εἰς Βαιθηλ Λουζα ( eis Baiqhl Louza , “from Bethel [Luz]”).


text: Or “received their inheritance.”


text: Heb “The territory of the sons of Ephraim was for their clans.”


text: The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim.”


text: Heb “and the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their towns.”


text: Heb “they”; the referent (the Ephraimites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.