There was also a lot for the tribe of Mnasheh; for he was the firstborn of Yosef; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Mnasheh, the father of Gilad: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilad and Bashan.
And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilad, the son of Machir, the son of Mnasheh, of the families of the sons of Yosef, came near, and spake before Moshe, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisrael:
Out of Efrayim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Binyamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zvulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
And Yisrael stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Efrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Mnasheh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Mnasheh was the firstborn.