Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: "For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house."

And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.

And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this [one is] the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

"But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife [as] the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] his.

Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third [generation.] The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph's knees.

The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these [were] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who [were] in it.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.

From Ephraim [were] those whose roots were in Amalek. After you, Benjamin, with your peoples, From Machir rulers came down, And from Zebulun those who bear the recruiter's staff.

(Geshur and Syria took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its towns -- sixty towns.) All these [belonged to] the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

The descendants of Manasseh: his Syrian concubine bore him Machir the father of Gilead, the father of Asriel.

Machir took as his wife [the sister] of Huppim and Shuppim, whose name [was] Maachah. The name of [Gilead's] grandson [was] Zelophehad, but Zelophehad begot only daughters.

The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.

"The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.

"Also I gave Gilead to Machir.