Joshua 17:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The tribe of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, whom all along the Lord has blessed?”

Cross References

Genesis 48:19

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

Genesis 48:20

So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will invoke blessings, saying, ‘God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’ ” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

Genesis 48:22

I now give to you one portion more than to your brothers, the portion that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

Ezekiel 48:5

Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion.

Numbers 13:7

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

Numbers 26:54

To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance according to its enrollment.

Numbers 36:12

They were married into the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.

Joshua 16:4

The Josephites—Manasseh and Ephraim—received their inheritance.

Joshua 17:15

And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear ground there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”