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Numbers 32:39

Numbers 32:39 is verse 39 of Numbers chapter 32, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

World English Bible

The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

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Numbers 32:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible

37 The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

38 as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.

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

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

41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 26:29

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

Genesis 50:23

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.

Joshua 17:1

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.

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