Goshen

Location

Type

region

Coordinates

30.7994, 31.8342

Certainty

high (85%)

OpenBible.info: "Goshen 1 (ancient): 85% confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17).

OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (Goshen 1 (ancient)); representative point 31.834217,30.799370 (lon,lat).

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• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• Genesis 45:10 (opens in a new tab)
• Genesis 46:28 (opens in a new tab)
• Genesis 47:27 (opens in a new tab)

Events here

• Jacob and his family go down to Egypt (AM 2298)
• Joseph's seven-year famine

Maps

• Route of the travels of the Israelites 40 years in the desert (Amsterdam Haggadah map, 1695)

Related

• Jacob (Israel)
• Joseph
• Jacob and his family go down to Egypt (AM 2298)

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.