7.瑪拿西的境界:從亞設起,到示劍前的密米他,往北到隱.他普亞居民之地。
The territory of Manasseh extended from Asher to Mikmethath east of Shechem. The boundary ran southward from there to include the people living at En Tappuah.
8.他普亞地歸瑪拿西,只是瑪拿西境界上的他普亞城歸以法蓮子孫。
(Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah itself, on the boundary of Manasseh, belonged to the Ephraimites.)
9.其界下到加拿河的南邊。在瑪拿西城邑中的這些城邑都歸以法蓮。瑪拿西的地界是在河北直通到海為止;
Then the boundary continued south to the Kanah Ravine. There were towns belonging to Ephraim lying among the towns of Manasseh, but the boundary of Manasseh was the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
10.南歸以法蓮,北歸瑪拿西,以海為界;北邊到亞設,東邊到以薩迦。
On the south the land belonged to Ephraim, on the north to Manasseh. The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.
11.瑪拿西在以薩迦和亞設境內,有伯.善和屬伯.善的鎮市,以伯蓮和屬以伯蓮的鎮市,多珥的居民和屬多珥的鎮市;又有三處山岡,就是隱多珥和屬隱多珥的鎮市;他納的居民和屬他納的鎮市,米吉多的居民和屬米吉多的鎮市。
Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth[a]).
Footnotes:
a. Joshua 17:11 That is, Naphoth Dor
12.只是瑪拿西子孫不能趕出這些城的居民,迦南人偏要住在那地。
Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region.
13.及至以色列人強盛了,就使迦南人做苦工,沒有把他們全然趕出。
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.