Yusha 17

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Yusuf. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. ²So the lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh Ibn Yusuf according to their families. ³But Zelophehad Ibn Hepher, Ibn Gilead, Ibn Machir, Ibn Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ⁴They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Yusha bin Nun, and before the princes, saying, Allah commanded Musa to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Allah he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. ⁵There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; ⁶because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh. ⁷The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. ⁸The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim. ⁹The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it were at the sea: ¹⁰southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east. ¹¹Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights. ¹²Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. ¹³It happened, when Bani-Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labour, and did not utterly drive them out. ¹⁴The children of Yusuf spoke to Yusha, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a numerous people, because until now Allah has blessed me? ¹⁵Yusha said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you. ¹⁶The children of Yusuf said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel. ¹⁷Yusha spoke to the house of Yusuf, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only: ¹⁸but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be your; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.