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.
From Numbers 26. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 26:29
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 26:5-51: This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in ch. 1. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of the several sons...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 26:28-37: Num 26:28-37 The descendants of Joseph were classified in two leading families, according to his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim, who were born before the removal of Israel to Egypt, and were raised into founders of tribes in consequence of the patriarch Israel having adopted them as his own sons (Gen 48).