What makes Yosef (Joseph) so keen on settling his families ... ‘and Israel settled in the land of Egypt and in the land of Goshen; they acquired holdings therein and were fruitful and increased ...

by bringing them all to Egypt and dwelling in the Land of Goshen. Worried they might be diverted from the mission and goal of peace, Joseph even told his brothers not to be quarrelsome on the way ...

Learn more. Q When I was a kid way back when I had an uncle who’d say “land o’ Goshen!” I haven’t heard the expression since then. What’s the story behind it? – E.E., Wabash ...

Sir Hanbury Brown advocates the view that the land of Goshen lay immediately west of the present Suez Ship Canal, that the western arm of the Red Sea extended at the time of the exodus over the ...