1 Chronicles 2:21-23

2:21 Later ¹  Hezron had sexual relations with ²  the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead. (He had married ³  her when he was sixty years old.) She bore him Segub. 2:22 Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 2:23 (Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, ⁴  along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

Genesis 50:23

50:23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. ⁵  He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph. ⁶ 

Numbers 26:29-34

26:29 The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites (now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. 26:30 These were the Gileadites: from Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; from Helek, the family of the Helekites; 26:31 from Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; from Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 26:32 from Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; from Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 26:33 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 26:34 These were the families of Manasseh; those numbered of them were 52,700. ⁷ 

Numbers 27:1

Special Inheritance Laws

27:1 ⁸ Then the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh, ⁹  the son Joseph came forward. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 32:30-42

32:30 But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.” 32:31 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken. ¹⁰  32:32 We will cross armed in the Lord’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.” ¹¹ 

Land Assignment

32:33 So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them. ¹²  32:34 The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, 32:35 Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, 32:36 Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and constructed pens for their flocks. 32:37 The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 32:38 Nebo, Baal Meon (with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed ¹³  the cities they built.

32:39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there. ¹⁴  32:41 Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair. 32:42 Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

Deuteronomy 3:13-15

3:13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. ¹⁵  (All the region of Argob, ¹⁶  that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim. 3:14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites ¹⁷  and Maacathites ¹⁸  (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, ¹⁹  which it retains to this very day.) 3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir. ²⁰ 

Joshua 13:31

13:31 Half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, to half the descendants of Makir by their clans.

Joshua 17:1-3

17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. ²¹  The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. ²²  They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. ²³  17:2 The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land ²⁴  by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.

17:3 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Jude 1:14

1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, ²⁵  even prophesied of them, ²⁶  saying, “Look! The Lord is coming ²⁷  with thousands and thousands ²⁸  of his holy ones,

[2:21]  ¹ sn This means “later” in relation to the births of the three sons (Jerahmeel, Ram and Caleb) mentioned in v. 9.

[2:21]  ² tn Heb “Hezron went to.”

[2:21]  ³ tn Heb “he took,” referring to taking in marriage.

[2:23]  ⁴ tn Or “Havvoth Jair” (NIV, NRSV). Some translations do not translate the phrase (“havvoth” = “the towns of”), but treat it as part of the place name.

[50:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “saw Ephraim, the children of the third.”

[50:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “they were born on the knees of Joseph.” This expression implies their adoption by Joseph, which meant that they received an inheritance from him.

[26:34]  ⁷ sn The Manassehites increased from 32,200 to 52,700.

[27:1]  ⁸ sn For additional information on this section, see N. H. Snaith, “The Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 124-27; and J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 518-22.

[27:1]  ⁹ tc The phrase “of the families of Manasseh” is absent from the Latin Vulgate.

[32:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that which the Lord has spoken to your servants, thus we will do.”

[32:32]  ¹¹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[32:33]  ¹² tn Heb “the land with its cities in the borders of the cities of the land all around.”

[32:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “called names.”

[32:40]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in it.”

[3:13]  ¹⁵ sn Half the tribe of Manasseh. The tribe of Manasseh split into clans, with half opting to settle in Bashan and the other half in Canaan (cf. Num 32:39-42; Josh 17:1-13).

[3:13]  ¹⁶ sn Argob. See note on this term in v. 4.

[3:14]  ¹⁷ sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).

[3:14]  ¹⁸ sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).

[3:14]  ¹⁹ sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.

[3:15]  ²⁰ sn Machir was the name of another descendant of Manasseh (cf. Num 32:41; 1 Chr 7:14-19). Eastern Manasseh was thus divided between the Jairites and the Machirites.

[17:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

[17:1]  ²² tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”

[17:1]  ²³ tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”

[17:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Manasseh who remained.”

[1:14]  ²⁵ tn Grk “the seventh from Adam.”

[1:14]  ²⁶ tn Grk “against them.” The dative τούτοις (toutois) is a dativus incommodi (dative of disadvantage).

[1:14]  ²⁷ tn Grk “has come,” a proleptic aorist.

[1:14]  ²⁸ tn Grk “ten thousands.” The word μυριάς (muria"), from which the English myriad is derived, means “ten thousand.” In the plural it means “ten thousands.” This would mean, minimally, 20,000 (a multiple of ten thousand). At the same time, the term was often used in apocalyptic literature to represent simply a rather large number, without any attempt to be specific.