Numbers 26:29

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.

Numbers 32:39-40

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. ¹ 

Numbers 27:1

Special Inheritance Laws

27:1 ² 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, ³  the son Joseph came forward. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 36:1

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ⁴  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ⁵  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ⁶ 

[32:40]  ¹ tn Heb “in it.”

[27:1]  ¹ 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]  ² tc The phrase “of the families of Manasseh” is absent from the Latin Vulgate.

[36:1]  ¹ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ² tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ³ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”