OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 16:8

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From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

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Verse 8. Reeds. Septuagint “of Cana.” The vale belonged to Manasses, but the cities were ceded to Ephraim, verse 9. Calmet. 17:16. The limits of these two tribes are very confused. Calmet.—Most salt. This is the title generally applied to the lake of Sodom. But here the Mediterranean is meant, which, compared with many of the seas of Palestine, is certainly most salt. Menochius.—The epithet is not, however, found in Hebrew or Septuagint ( Calmet.) and Serarius thinks it has crept in here by mistake. Menochius.

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