¹³ The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh.^(A) (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.^(B)

³⁹ The descendants of Makir^(A) son of Manasseh went to Gilead,^(B) captured it and drove out the Amorites^(C) who were there. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites,^(D) the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there. ⁴¹ Jair,^(E) a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.^{[a](F) 42} And Nobah captured Kenath^(G) and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah^(H) after himself.^(I)

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

²³ The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh^(A) were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).^(B)

²⁴ These were the heads of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Jahdiel. They were brave warriors, famous men, and heads of their families. ²⁵ But they were unfaithful^(C) to the God of their ancestors and prostituted^(D) themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. ²⁶ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit^(E) of Pul^(F) king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-Pileser^(G) king of Assyria), who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah,^(H) Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

²⁹ This is what Moses had given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the family of the descendants of Manasseh, according to its clans:

³² This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab^(H) across the Jordan east of Jericho.^(I)