Joshua 16:4
So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.
BSB
ASV
And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
KJV
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Their inheritance - Their several portions which here follow. It is said, they took their inheritance, which also Judah had done before them, because the tribes of Judah and Joseph did take their inheritances before the rest; and it was fit they should do so, for the security of the main camp, and the body of the people which were at Gilgal, chap. xviii, 5.
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Joshua 17:14Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
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But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and…
And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
These were the clans of Manasseh, and their registration numbered 52,700.
Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.