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Genesis 46:28 ff names it as the place where the Beney Yisra-El dwelt in Yoseph's Mitsrayim (Egypt), and wherethey would remain for for 430 years in total, up until the period of slavery. It was given to them by Pharaoh in Genesis 45:10.
The accompanying statement that "shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians" provides a clue to their being part of the Hyksos invasion and conquest of Mitsrayim, as the Hyksos were also called the "Shepherd Kings" and their priests and rulers were famous for their dyed clothes of Phoenician-Kena'ani murex, known in the Yoseph story as the "coat of many colours".
Significant in this regard is the fact that the Hyksos made their capital at Avaris, which is in the very heart of Goshen, on the east delta of the Nile, whereas the old Egyptian kingdom, and the restored kingdom after the Hyksos were driven out, was at Moph (Memphis), slightly south of On-Heliopolis (Yoseph's city), a thousand miles south along the Nile from Avaris, in Upper Egypt, before the point where the Nile begins to delta.
Exodus 9:26 tells how, when the plague of hail struck, only Goshen was unaffected (see also 13:17).
Joshua 10:41, 11:16 and 15:51 make it a town and district in the Mountains of Yehudah.
Significant in this regard is the fact that the Hyksos made their capital at Avaris, which is in the very heart of Goshen, on the east delta of the Nile, whereas the old Egyptian kingdom, and the restored kingdom after the Hyksos were driven out, was at Moph (Memphis), slightly south of On-Heliopolis (Yoseph's city), a thousand miles south along the Nile from Avaris, in Upper Egypt, before the point where the Nile begins to delta.
Exodus 9:26 tells how, when the plague of hail struck, only Goshen was unaffected (see also 13:17).
Joshua 10:41, 11:16 and 15:51 make it a town and district in the Mountains of Yehudah.
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