And I gave Gilead unto Machir Not irreconcilable with Deuteronomy 3:12 where the N. half of Gile-ad is assigned to half-Manasseh, for Machir was held to have been the first and only son of Manasseh, and, apparently, is even taken for all Manasseh (Judges 5:14; Numbers 26:29?). Yet there is force in Dillm."s contention that the author who had just written 12 f. could hardly have immediately added the variant Deuteronomy 3:15; hence the latter is reasonably taken as, like Deuteronomy 3:14, a later insertion derived from Numbers 32:40.

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