Joshua 16:9

And the separate cities Or, the places which were portioned off.

were This verb, introduced into our Version, should be omitted, and the full stop at the end of Joshua 16:8 should be replaced by a colon. The author intended us to add to "the inheritance of the children of Ephraim" the "separate" or "single" cities allotted to the tribe within the borders of Manasseh. It is supposed that after their relative boundaries had been fixed though the subdivision of the territory assigned to the two brother tribes does not seem to have been very definite it was found that the territory of Ephraim was too small in proportion to its strength.