28And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
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And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them.
And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim. …
And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-40)We have here an account, I. Of the tribe of Ephraim. Great things we read of that tribe when it came to maturity. Here we have an account of the disasters of its infancy, while it was in Egypt as it should seem; for Ephraim himself was alive when those things were done, which yet is hard to imagine if it were, as is here computed, seven generations off. Therefore I am apt to think that either it w…
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