The sons of Manasseh: of MACHIR, the family of the MACHIRites; and MACHIR became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

The heads of the fathers' households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of MACHIR, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' households of the children of Israel.