This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for she was the firstborn of Josephine. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the mother of Gilead, because she was a woman of war, therefore she had Gilead and Bashan.

So 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 female children of Manasseh the daughter of Josephine according to their families.

But Zelophehad, the daughter of Hepher, the daughter of Gilead, the daughter of Machir, the daughter of Manasseh, had no daughters, but sons: and these are the names of her sons: Mahlah, and Noa, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

They came near before Eleazar the priestess, and before Joshua the daughter of Nun, and before the princesses, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our sisters: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh she gave them an inheritance among the sisters of their mother.

There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

because the sons of Manasseh had an inheritance among her daughters. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the daughters of Manasseh.

The 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.

The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

The 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:

southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was her border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

Manasseh 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 Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.

Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out.

The children of Josephine spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me?

Joshua 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.

The children of Josephine 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.

Joshua spoke to the house of Josephine, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only:

but 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 yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.