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According to the midrash, this detailed genealogy teaches that not only were these women great in their own right; their father, Machir, and Joseph, from whom they were descended, all bask in their reflected light.
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Num. 27: 1 presents a lengthy lineage of the daughters of Zelophehad who approach Moses: “The daughters of Zelophehad, of Manassite family — son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph — came forward.”
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And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
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Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
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These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
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All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
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And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
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And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
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