Joshua 17:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And the lot for the tribe of Menashsheh, for he was the first-born of Yosĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ ALLOTMENT WAS made for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan because he was a man of war.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Common English Bible

¹ Land was determined by lot for the tribe of Manasseh, who was actually Joseph’s oldest son. Gilead and Bashan belonged to Machir, who was Manasseh’s oldest son and Gilead’s father. This was because he was a warrior.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now this lot fell to the tribe of Manasseh, since he is the firstborn of Joseph: to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, who was a fighting man, and he had as a possession Gilead and Bashan;

Joshua 17:1 Cross References

Genesis 41:51

And Yosĕ

Genesis 41:52

And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 46:20

And to Yosĕ

Genesis 48:17

And when Yosĕ

Genesis 48:18

And Yosĕ

Genesis 50:23

And Yosĕ

2 Samuel 2:9

and set him up to reign over Gilʽ

1 Chronicles 2:23

And he took from them Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Ya’ir, with Qenath and its towns, sixty towns. All these belonged to the sons of Maḵ

Ezekiel 47:13

Thus said the Master יהוה, “This is the border by which you inherit the land, according to the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 48:4

“And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Menashsheh: one.

Numbers 26:29

Sons of Menashsheh: of Maḵ

Numbers 27:1

Then came the daughters of Tselophḥ

Numbers 32:33

So Mosheh gave to the children of Gaḏ

Deuteronomy 21:17

“But he is to acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength – the right of the first-born is his.

Joshua 17:2

And for the rest of the children of Menashsheh for their clans there was: for the children of Aḇ

Joshua 22:7

And to half the tribe of Menashsheh Mosheh had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half of it Yehoshua gave land among their brothers beyond the Yardĕ

Judges 5:14

“Out of Ephrayim their root is against Amalĕ