“Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;”
Then the boundary went down to the brook of Kanah — The detailed boundary description (vv. 8–10) reflects the scribal precision of divinely sanctioned allocation. The brook Kanah becomes a liminal space, a marker between tribal inheritances. Such detailed boundary work embodies the covenant principle that the LORD carefully measures and distributes what belongs to His people; no portion is random or ill-defined. The specificity paradoxically reinforces the theological claim that human geography reflects divine ordering.
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