1:29a Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer;

The clan of Ephraim could not force the people of Canaan who lived in Gezer to leave.
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⌊The same thing happened to⌋ the descendants of Ephraim. They were not able to defeat the people of Canaan who lived in the town of Gezer. They could not send them away.

1:29b so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

So the people of Ephraim and the people of Canaan continued to live together.
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These people of Canaan stayed in the same land with the clan of Ephraim.

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