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East Manasseh (Half-Tribe)

Named in 14 verses across 5 books, first in Numbers 32:39.

In the Bible

The first 10 of 14 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Numbers

  • Numbers 32:39

    The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

  • Numbers 32:40

    So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.

  • Numbers 32:41

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

  • Numbers 32:42

    And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Deuteronomy

  • Deuteronomy 3:13

    To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)

  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

  • Deuteronomy 3:15

    To Machir I gave Gilead,

Joshua

  • Joshua 13:29

    This is what Moses had given to the clans of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh:

  • Joshua 13:30

    The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;

  • Joshua 13:31

    half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.

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