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Time to change the name of the article, although it looks as though Manasseh and Mannasseh are equally popular on Google Books and Google Scholar. Comments? Dougweller (talk) 21:02, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"At its height, the territory it occupied spanned the Jordan River, forming two "half-tribes", one on each side; the eastern half-tribe was almost entirely discontinuous with the western half-tribe, only slightly touching at one corner - the south west of the eastern half-tribe and north east of the western half-tribe."
Near the end of the 1st paragraph under 'Origin', should it not be Joseph, the father, who ordained that Ephraim should have the firstborn blessing -- not Jacob, the grandfather?
Ah! I found the story of Jacob's blessing of his grandson Ephraim in preference to his elder grandson Manasseh despite the correction attempted by Joseph, the father of the Ephraim & Manasseh. The paragraph is not in error.
David P West (talk) 16:32, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The following content was in the Manasses (given name) article and, since it's really outside the topic of that article, I thought I'd bring it here. It's mostly taken from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Deriving its name from Manasses, son of Joseph, this tribe was divided into two half-tribes, an eastern and a western.
The tribe east of the river Jordan was represented by the descendants of Machir (Judges 5:14). Machir was the first-born of Manasses (Joshua 17:1). The children of Machir took Galaad (Numbers 32:39); Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir (verse 40). Two other sons of Manasses, Jair and Nobe, also took villages in Galaad, and gave thereto their own names (verses 41-42).
The territory of the western half-tribe is roughly sketched in Jos., xvi, 1-3. It was that part of Samaria which lay between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, the plain of Esdrelon and the towns of Jericho, Sichem and Samaria. The eastern half-tribe occupied north Galaad, all Basan and Argob (Joshua 13:30-31; cfr. Deuteronomy 3:13) — an immense tract of land extending east of Jordan to the present Mecca route (darb elhaj) and far beyond, so as to include the Hauran.
