Home Timeline Geography Search Sources Links Info+Contact 685024 visitors since may 8, 2005 NAVIGATE Overall Index Biblical tradition Lands and places of the Bible Goshen Goshen Hebrew settlement 1663 BCE to 1447 BCE Name in the Masoretic scriptures of the city in the eastern Nile delta, just seven kilometers south of Pi-Ramesse and Auaris, where after the biblical tradition the Hebrews settled down when they came to Egypt. The Septuagint names the site Kessan, from Egyptian Pa-Kes or Pa-Kus (hence also Greek Phacusa and modern Fakus). write a comment or suggest a text, search on Google this entry was last changed Jul 30, 2005 SWJ 2026, no rights reserved