A moment in scripture
Numbers 32:40
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And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
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The surrounding passage
- Numbers 32:38
And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
- Numbers 32:39
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
- Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.
- Numbers 32:42
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.