¹Mugove wavana vaJosefa wakatanga paJoridhani paJeriko, pamvura yeJeriko kumabvazuva kurenje, uchitanga paJeriko, ndokukwira napanyika yamakomo uchienda Bheti-eri;

¹And the lot for the sons of Joseph goeth out from Jordan [by] Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness going up from Jericho in the hill-country of Beth-El,

²ndokubva Bheti-eri kusvikira paRuzi, ndokupfuura napamuganhu wavaArikiti kusvikira paAtaroti;

²and hath gone out from Beth-El to Luz, and passed over unto the border of Archi [to] Ataroth,

³ndokuburukira kumavirazuva kumuganhu wavaJafereti, kusvikira Gezeri, ndokuguma pagungwa.

³and gone down westward unto the border of Japhleti, unto the border of Beth-Horon the lower, and unto Gezer, and its outgoings have been at the sea.

⁴Vana vaJosefa, Manase naEfuremu, vakatora nhaka yavo.

⁴And the sons of Joseph — Manasseh and Ephraim — inherit.

⁵Muganhu wavana vaEfuremu nemhuri dzavo ndiwo: Muganhu wenhaka yavo kumabvazuva wakange uri Atarotiadhari, kusvikira paBheti-horoni kumusoro;

⁵And the border of the sons of Ephraim is by their families; and the border of their inheritance is on the east, Atroth-Addar unto Beth-Horon the upper;

⁶zvino muganhu ndokuenda kumavirazuva paMikimetati kumusoro; zvino muganhu ndokudzoka kumabvazuva kusvikira paTanati-shiro, ndokupfuura ipapo kurutivi rwamabvazuva eJaNowa;

⁶and the border hath gone out at the sea, to Michmethah on the north, and the border hath gone round eastward [to] Taanath-Shiloh, and passed over it eastward to Janohah,

⁷ndokubva paJaNowa, ndokuburukira Ataroti, neNaara, ndokusvika paJeriko, ndokuguma paJoridhani.

⁷and gone down from Janohah [to] Ataroth, and to Naarath, and touched against Jericho, and gone out at the Jordan.

⁸Kubva paTapua muganhu wakaenda kumavirazuva, kusvikira parukova Kana, ndokuguma pagungwa. Ndiyo nhaka yorudzi rwavana vaEfuremu nemhuri dzavo;

⁸From Tappuah the border goeth westward unto the brook of Kanah, and its outgoings have been at the sea: this [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, for their families.

⁹pamwechete namaguta akanga akakamurirwa vana vaEfuremu pakati penhaka yavana vaManase, maguta ose nemisha yawo.

⁹And the separate cities of the sons of Ephraim [are] in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages;

¹⁰havana kudzinga vaKanani vakanga vagere Gezeri; asi vaKanani vakagara pakati pavaEfuremu kusvikira nhasi; vakava vabati vechibharo.

¹⁰and they have not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and is to tribute — a servant.