📌Gilead (son of Machir)

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This document is about Gilead (son of Machir). For other homonyms, please refer to the Gilead document.

Grandson of Manasseh and son of Machir. In Numbers 26, it is referred to as the clan of Gilead, but it is more appropriate to interpret it as a branch of the tribe of Manasseh.

Num 26:29The descendants of Manasseh: Of Machir, the Machirite clan (Machir was the father of Gilead); of Gilead, the Gileadite clan.
Josh 17:1This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as the firstborn of Joseph. Manasseh’s firstborn was Machir, the father of Gilead. Since Machir was a man of war, he was given Gilead and Bashan.

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