The sons of Manasseh: Asriel (Asri’el), whom she bore. It seems from the Torah (Numbers 26:29–31) that Asriel is a son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, so that he was [Manasseh’s] great-grandson. We find many places in this book where the text lists grandsons in a sequence of sons. So here, too, it mentions Asriel among the sons of Manasseh even though he was his great-grandson. And it places him before his son Machir because Machir was a son of a concubine, as it says, “his Aramean concubine bore Machir the father of Gilead.” When it says “Asriel, whom she bore” without mentioning the one who bore him, it follows a standard practice of the text, as in: “whom she bore to Levi in Egypt” (Numbers 26:59), and: “He was the one whom she bore after Absalom” (1 Kings 1:6). The reason the text mentions Asriel without listing the others is that they are [all] listed in the Torah (Numbers 26:29–35); so it takes an abridged form. But it does mention Asriel: perhaps he was more highly regarded than his brothers and his family was well known. There is a midrashic explanation on this (?), [which affirms that it mentions him] because his name was similar to their ancestor Yisra’el (=Israel).