Goshen

Goshen, or The Land of Goshen, the district occupied by the Israelites during their sojourn in Egypt, was probably situated in the most eastern part of Lower Egypt, and the classical Phacusa (Pa-Kesem) has been identified as its capital. Gesem is the form in which the word occurs in the Septuagint. Fakoos (Phacusa) still is a pastoral country 20 miles S. of Lake Siin, near which was the site of Tanis-Rameses, the ancient administrative centre and the point from which the Exodus probably started. (See Gen. xlvii. 11.) Another "Land of Goshen" existed in S. Palestine.