Numbers 32:40

Moses [Drawn out] gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh [Causing to forget]; and he lived therein.

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In The King James Version

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

In Context

39The children of Machir the son of Manasseh [Causing to forget] went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers] who were therein.

41Jair the son of Manasseh [Causing to forget] went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:13and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh [Causing to forget]; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim [Descendants of Terrible one].

Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:29-42

Inheritance of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord , and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have… Read the whole commentary →

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