The clan of Machir son of Manasseh invaded the land of Gilead, occupied it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir, and they lived there.

The heads of the families in the clan of Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh son of Joseph, went to Moses and the other leaders.

But Jacob crossed his hands, and put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, even though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, who was the older.

"I assigned Gilead to the clan of Machir of the tribe of Manasseh.

A part of the land west of the Jordan was assigned to some of the families descended from Joseph's older son Manasseh. Machir, the father of Gilead, was Manasseh's oldest son and a military hero, so Gilead and Bashan, east of the Jordan, were assigned to him.

They came from Ephraim into the valley, behind the tribe of Benjamin and its people. The commanders came down from Machir, the officers down from Zebulun.

By his Aramean concubine, Manasseh had two sons, Asriel and Machir. Machir was the father of Gilead.

Maacah, Machir's wife, gave birth to two sons, whom they named Peresh and Sheresh. Peresh had two sons, Ulam and Rakem,

Gilead's sister Hammolecheth had three sons: Ishod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.