The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
The sons of Manasseh - or descendants: for Ashriel was a grandson, and Zelophehad was a generation further removed in descent (Numbers 26:33). The text, as it stands, is so confused and complicated that it is exceedingly difficult to trace the genealogical thread, and a great variety conjectures have been made with a view to clear away the obscurity. The passage should probably be rendered thus-`The sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, whom his Syrian concubine bare to him, and Machir, the father of Gilead, whom his wife bare to him. Machir took for, a wife Maachah, sister to Huppim and Shuppim.'