Biblical Sources
 Numbers (NASB) 32:39
 The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
 Numbers (NASB)  32:40
 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.
 Deuteronomy  (NASB) 3:12
So we took possession of this land at that time. From Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
 Deuteronomy (NASB)  3:13
 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.
 Deuteronomy  (NASB) 3:15
 To Machir I gave Gilead.
 Deuteronomy  (NASB) 3:16
 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley as a border and as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;
 Deuteronomy  (NASB) 4:43
 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.