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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
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CHAPTER 32
  40 And Moses gave aGilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

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40a
Josh. 17: 1.
  1 There was also a lot for the tribe of aManasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for bMachir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
Judg. 5: 14.
  14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of aMachir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that bhandle the pen of the cwriter.