The sons of Gad dwelt facing them in the land of Bashan as far as Salcah. This does not include the entire land of Bashan, because the Torah says that Moses gave the land of Bashan to the half-tribe of Manasseh, as it says, “The rest of the Gilead and all of the Bashan the kingdom of Og I assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh—the whole Argob district, all that part of the Bashan” (Deut 3:13). Rather, the Gadites had a part of the Bashan, which extended until Salcah; and from Salcah onward, the entire Bashan belonged to the half-tribe of Manasseh. And when it says in the Torah that “all of the Bashan [the kingdom of Og]” belonged to the half-tribe of Manasseh, it means: all of the Bashan that constituted the kingdom of Og, along with the whole Argob district that is called “Rephaim country” (ibid.). There were, however, a few places in the Bashan over which Og did not rule. Even though he was called “King of Bashan” (Numbers 21:33), this is because the majority of the Bashan was his. But a part of the Bashan—until Salcah—had belonged to the Amorites, and that was what the Gadites possessed. When the text says here “and they dwelt in Gilead, in Bashan, and in its dependencies” (v. 16), this refers, again, to the part of the Bashan that extends until Salcah and its dependencies, where the Gadites dwelt. Similarly, when it says here (v. 23) that the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land of Bashan as far as Baal-hermon, it means from the part of the Bashan that belonged to the Gadites as far as Baal-hermon. Accordingly, it says in Joshua (22:7), “To the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had assigned territory in the Bashan,” but it does not say the whole Bashan.