| has gloss | eng: Gilead as a Person and Tribal Group Gilead was, according to the Book of Numbers, the son of Machir, and hence the grandson of Manasseh , great-grandson of Joseph and greatx4 grandson of Abraham and Sarah. He also may have been the founder of the Israelite tribal group of Gilead, which is mentioned in Biblical passages which textual scholars attribute to early sources; however, the Gilead group is given equal status to a tribal group named Machir, in the early biblical passages, as a separate group rather than as a group contained by the Machir group, which seemingly is inconsistent. |