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.
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 that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Yisrael: eighteen years, all the children of Yisrael that were on the other side Yarden in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilad.