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And the lot was for the tribe of Menasheh, for he was the firstborn of Yosef. For Makhir, firstborn of Menasheh, father of Gilad, because he was an ish of war, there was Gilad and Bashan.
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And there was also a lot for the remaining sons of Menasheh according to their families: for the sons of Aviezer, and for the sons of Cheleq, and for the sons of Asriel, and for the sons of Shekhem, and for the sons of Chefer, and for the sons of Shemida. These were the male sons of Menasheh son of Yosef according to their families.
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But Tzelofchad son of Chefer, son of Gilad, son of Makhir, son of Menasheh, had no sons, but daughters. And these are the names of his daughters: Machlah, and No’ah, Choglah, Milkah, and Tirtzah.
4
And they drew near before Elazar the kohen, and before Yehoshua son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, “Yahuah commanded Mosheh to give us an inheritance in the midst of our brothers.” And he gave them, according to the mouth of Yahuah, an inheritance in the midst of the brothers of their father.
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And ten portions fell to Menasheh, besides the land of Gilad and Bashan that were beyond the Yarden,
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because the daughters of Menasheh received an inheritance in the midst of his sons. And the land of Gilad belonged to the remaining sons of Menasheh.
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And the border of Menasheh was from Asher to Mikhmetat, which is before Shekhem, and the border went toward the right to the inhabitants of Ein-Tappuach.
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The land of Tappuach belonged to Menasheh, but Tappuach upon the border of Menasheh belonged to the sons of Efrayim.
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And the border went down to the wadi of Qanah, south of the wadi. These cities belonged to Efrayim in the midst of the cities of Menasheh. And the border of Menasheh was north of the wadi, and its limits were at the sea.
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Southward was Efrayim, and northward Menasheh, and the sea was his border. And they reached Asher on the north and Yissakhar on the east.
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And there belonged to Menasheh in Yissakhar and in Asher: Beit-Shean and its daughter towns, and Yivleam and its daughter towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter towns, and the inhabitants of Ein-Dor and its daughter towns, and the inhabitants of Taanakh and its daughter towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter towns—the three heights.
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But the sons of Menasheh were not able to possess these cities, and the Kena’ani determined to dwell in that land.
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And it came to pass, when the sons of Yisra’el grew strong, that they placed the Kena’ani under forced labor, but dispossessing, they did not completely dispossess them.
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And the sons of Yosef spoke to Yehoshua, saying, “Why have you given me one lot and one portion as an inheritance, when I am a numerous people, since Yahuah has blessed me until now?”
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And Yehoshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up for yourself to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzi and the Refaim, since the hill country of Efrayim is too narrow for you.”
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And the sons of Yosef said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and there are chariots of iron among all the Kena’ani who dwell in the land of the valley, both those who are in Beit-Shean and its daughter towns and those who are in the valley of Yizre’el.”
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And Yehoshua spoke to the house of Yosef, to Efrayim and to Menasheh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and great strength is yours. You shall not have one lot only.
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For the hill country shall be yours. Though it is a forest, you shall clear it, and its farthest limits shall be yours. For you shall dispossess the Kena’ani, though he has chariots of iron and though he is strong.”