I gave Gilead to Machir.
Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. Also, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites, and Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Moses had assigned land in Bashan to half the tribe of Manasseh, and to the other half Joshua assigned land among their brothers on the west side of the Jordan. When Joshua sent them also to their homes and blessed them,
