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MOF JOS Chapter 17

17 The clan of Manasseh received its share. Manasseh was the eldest son of Joseph, and as Machir the eldest son of Manasseh and the father of Gilead was a soldier, he had Gilead and Bashan. 2 The rest of the Manassites, according to their septs, were the Abiezrites, the Helekites, the Asrielites, the Shechemites, the Hepherites, and the Shemidaites, the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph. 3 However, Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters; his daughters were called Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah. 4 They came before Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the chiefs, urging that the Eternal had told Moses to grant them an inheritance among their fellowkinsmen. So, as the Eternal had ordered, Joshua gave them an inheritance among the kinsmen of their father. 5 Ten shares fell to Manasseh, apart from the land of Gilead and Bashan on the east of the Jordan 6 (for the daughters of Manasseh inherited along with their kinsmen, and the rest of the Manassites held the land of Gilead). 7 The frontier of Manasseh ran from Asher to Michméthah east of Shechem, then south to the natives of En-tappuah 8 (the land of Tappuah belonging to Manasseh, but Tappuah on the frontier of Manasseh belonging to Ephraim). 9 The frontier went down to the south of the brook of Kanah these towns belonged to Ephraim among the towns of Manasseh , then ran along the north side of the brook as far as the sea, 10 the land to the south being Ephraim’s and the land to the north belonging to Manasseh, with the sea as the frontier to the west. They stretched to Asher on the north and to Issachar on the south-east. 11 In Issachar and Asher Manasseh held Beth-shean and its townships, Ibleam and its townships, the natives of Dor and its townships (the three heights of Dor), the natives of Endor and its townships, the natives of Taainak and its townships, the natives of Megiddo 12 and its townships; 12 but the Manassites could not evict the natives of these towns. The Canaanites clung to this country. 13 When Israel became a power, they forced the Canaanites to slave for them; they never evicted them entirely.

14 Then the Josephites said to Joshua, “Why have you allotted us only one part as our inheritance, when we are a large clan, since the Eternal has been prospering us?” 15 Joshua replied, “Tf you are a great clan, go up to the Forest and clear land for yourselves there, among the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the highlands of Ephraim are too small for you.” 16 “The highlands are not large enough for us,” said the Josephites, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley country have iron chariots, both the natives of Beth-shean and its townships and those who live in the valley of Jezreél.” 17 Then Joshua said to the Josephites, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a great clan, and a powerful clan, so you shall have more than one part allotted to you; 18 the hill18 country of Gilead shall be yours, for though it is a Forest you shall clear it and hold it to its full extent. For you shall evict the Canaanites, though they do have iron chariots and though they are strong.”

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