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17 The allotment for Menashsheh’s descendants (Yosef’s eldest son) included a special allotment for (Gilead’s father) Makir—he was given Gilead and Bashan because he was a powerful warrior. 2 The other Menashsheh clans that were allocated land were the Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shekem, Hefer, and Shemida clans. (They were the sons of Yosef’s son Menashsheh who led their own clans.) 3 But Zelofehad (son of Hefer, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Menashsheh) had no sons—only daughters who were named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah. 4 They approached the priest Eleazar and Yehoshua and the other leaders and said, “Yahweh told Mosheh to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So he[fn] gave them an inheritance (like he’d given their uncles), as Yahweh had instructed them.[ref] 5 So ten blocks were allocated to Menashsheh tribe as well as Gilead and Bashan which were across the Yordan 6 because Menashsheh’s daughters received inheritances along with his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of Menashsheh’s sons.
7 The border for Menashsheh went from Asher to Mikmetat opposite Shekem, then went south towards the spring at Tappuah. 8 (The Tappuah land was for Menashsheh, but Tappuah town was for Efrayim.) 9 Then the border went south to the Kanah riverbed—the cities there belonged to Efrayim even though they were inside Menashsheh’s land—then the border stayed on the north side of the riverbed and extended to the Mediterranean. 10 So the south was for Efrayim and the north was for Menashsheh, and the sea was the western border, meeting Asher from the north and Yissakar from the east. 11 Menashsheh was allocated cities inside both Yissakar’s and Asher’s territories: Beyt-Shan, Ibleam, Dor, Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo along with their surrounding towns.[fn] 12 But Menashsheh’s descendants weren’t able to take possession of those cities, so the Canaanites continued to live in the region.[ref] 13 When the Israelis strengthened their position, they were able to force those Canaanites to work for them, but they weren’t able to drive them out.
17:4 It’s not clear who this ‘he’ refers to here—some translations choose Eleazar (implied by the sentence structure) and others choose Yehoshua (implied by past allocations of land).
17:11 We’ve omitted the final Hebrew phrase here (the three of Nafet) since it’s unclear what it means (plus it’s not considered to be a vital point in the narrative).
Num 27:1-7:
27 Then the daughters of Tselofehad (son of Hefer, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Menashsheh) approached. Their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirtsah. 2 They stood in front of Mosheh and the priest Eleazar and all the leaders and the people there at the entrance to the sacred tent, and asked, 3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although he wasn’t part of the group who joined Korah to rebel against Yahweh—it was for his own personal disobedience that he died. He didn’t have any sons 4 but why should his family name disappear from our clan just because he had no sons? So give us some land like our father’s relatives will be getting.”
5 So Mosheh took their case to Yahweh 6 and he responded, 7 “It’s right what Tselofehad’s daughters are saying. You must give them some land like their father’s relatives will be getting. Give them whatever would have been given to their father as his inheritance.
Jdg 1:27-28:
27 However Menashsheh’s descendants didn’t drive out those living in Beyt-Shan, Taanak, Dor, Yibleam, or Meggidon, because the Canaanites were determined to keep living there.[ref] 28 (Later, the Israelis became stronger and they forced the Canaanites to work for them as their slaves, but they didn’t drive them out.)
