Deuteronomy 3:15 “To Machir I gave Gilead,”

Deuteronomy 3:15

To Machir I gave Gilead,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

World English Bible

I gave Gilead to Machir.

American Standard Version

And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I gaue part of Gilead vnto Machir.

Darby Translation

And I gave Gilead to Machir.

Young's Literal Translation

And to Machir I have given Gilead.

Bible in Basic English

And Gilead I gave to Machir.

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Cross references

“Machir”

Genesis 50:23 Numbers 26:29 Joshua 17:1–3 Joshua 22:7 Numbers 32:39 Numbers 32:40

Genesis 50:23 · BSB

He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

Numbers 26:29 · BSB

These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

Joshua 17:1–3 · BSB

Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war…

Joshua 22:7 · BSB

(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to their homes he blessed them,

Numbers 32:39 · BSB

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 32:40 · BSB

So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

16and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

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