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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 17:6

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons, etc.] Which occasioned such a number of portions; the daughters of Zelophehad are meant, who descended from Manasseh: and the rest of Manasseh, some had the land of Gilead; that is, those besides the six families before expressed, namely, the two families of the Machirites and Gileadites, (<042629>Numbers 26:29).
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