Judges 10:4
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He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
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Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder