They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.
"It is universally agreed that the reference [to Manasseh] was originally to Moses. The reason for the amendment may have been to safeguard the reputation of this great leader by excluding him from the pedigree of this time-serving and idolatrous Levite." [Note: Cundall and Morris, p. 191.] 