Land of Goshen

The biblical Goshen is usually in new editions of the Bible - since this form is closer to the Hebrew גֹּשֶׁן - translated as Goshen. It may refer to:

1 An area between the eastern Nile Delta and the Suez Canal today. It was left to the descendants of Jacob as grazing area (see Gen 45.10 LUT LUT 46.28 34; 47.1 27 LUT LUT 50.8 ) and included only partially in the Egyptian plagues (see second book of Moses ( Exodus ) 8:18; 9:4,26; 10:23; 12:23 ). The place is not so far is in Egyptian sources. Since gene. 47.11 of the "land of Ramses " is mentioned, it is the area of ​​Ramses residence, perhaps the Wadi Tumilat.

2nd city in Judah ( Joshua 15:51 ), whose name also in the landscape passed ( Joshua 10:41; 11:16 ), probably the hills in the southwest of Palestine in the area of Hebron.