Original sentence: In the Torah's account of the journey of the Israelites after the Exodus, Machir (the individual) is portrayed as conquering the territories known as Gilead and Bashan,  which had previously been occupied by Amorites.Machir's descendants are described as having settled in Gilead and Bashan, and consequently is a key figure in Gilead's history.Machir/Makir - meaning selling/bartered -  was, according to the Book of Numbers, the son of Manasseh, and father of Gilead,
Edited sentence: Biblical scholars view the biblical genealogies as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the group to others in the Israelite confederation; the identification of Machir as an aspect of Manasseh was the traditional explanation of why the tribal groups of Machir and Gilead are mentioned along with northern tribes in the ancient Song of Deborah, while Manasseh is absent from it.In the Torah's account of the journey of the Israelites after the Exodus, Machir (the individual) is portrayed as conquering the territories known as Gilead and Bashan,  which had previously been occupied by Amorites; according to an increasing majority of archaeologists, the Israelites emerged as a subculture within Canaanite society, rather than invading from outside it.Machir's descendants (presumably equal to the Machir and/or Gilead group) are described as having settled in Gilead and Bashan, and consequently is a key figure in Gilead's history.Machir/Makir - meaning selling/bartered -  was, according to the Book of Numbers, the son of Manasseh, and father of Gilead, and may have been the founder of the Israelite tribal group of Machir, which is mentioned in Biblical passages which textual scholars attribute to early sources; however, the Machir group is given equal status to a tribal group named Gilead, in the early biblical passages, as a separate group rather than as a group containing the Gilead group within it, which seemingly is inconsistent.Textual scholars regard the genealogy in the Book of Numbers, which identifies Machir as Gilead's father, as originating in the priestly source, a document written centuries after the early JE source, in which the Machir and Gilead tribal groups are mentioned, and possibly having been written to rival the JE source