And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
A portion for Manasseh. The contact and unity between the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, and the nine and a half west of it, had been much kept up by the splitting of Manasseh, causing the visits of kinsmen one to the other from both sides of the Jordan. There shall be no need for this in the new order of things.