Numbers 32:39-42
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Other Conquests. 39 The descendants of Machir, son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and captured it, dispossessing the Amorites who were there. 40 (Moses gave Gilead to Machir,(A) son of Manasseh, and he settled there.) 41 Jair,(B) a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their tent villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.[a] 42 Nobah went and captured Kenath with its dependencies and called it Nobah after his own name.
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- 32:41 Havvoth-jair: that is, “villages of Jair.”
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