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Goshen
Joseph settled Jacob and the family here, in the eastern Nile delta, and Israel lived and multiplied there until the exodus. Pithom and Rameses were inside it, and it is generally identified with the Wadi Tumilat.
Joseph settled Jacob and the family here, in the eastern Nile delta, and Israel lived and multiplied there until the exodus. Pithom and Rameses were inside it, and it is generally identified with the Wadi Tumilat.
Goshen was the fertile district in northeastern Egypt, along the eastern Nile delta, where Joseph settled his father Jacob and the rest of his family, and where the Israelites lived and multiplied until the exodus. Its cities Pithom and Rameses lay within its borders, and it is generally identified with the Wadi Tumilat. Two lesser places in Canaan's south also bore the name Goshen.
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- panorama of a plain in Goshen 1
- Genesis 45:10
- Genesis 46:28
- Genesis 46:34
- Genesis 47:1
- Genesis 47:4
- Genesis 47:6
- Genesis 47:27
- Genesis 50:8
- Exodus 8:22
- Exodus 9:26
