Manasseh’s Descendants Who Lived West of the Jordan River

¹⁴ Manasseh’s sons were Asriel and Machir. Their mother was Manasseh’s Aramean concubine.^[a] Machir was the first to settle Gilead. ¹⁵ He married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. His wife’s ^[b] name was Maacah. The name of his second son was Zelophehad. Zelophehad had only daughters. ¹⁶ Maacah, Machir’s wife, had a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, whose sons were Ulam and Rakem.