a province or district of Egypt, in which Jacob and his family settled through the instrumentality of his son Joseph, and in which they and their descendants remained for a period of 430 years. That Goshen lay on the eastern side of the Nile may be justifiably inferred from the fact that Jacob is not reported to have crossed that river; nor does it appear that the Israelites did so in their flight out of Egypt. By comparing Exod. xiii. 17, and 1 Chron. vii. 21, it appears that Goshen bordered on Arabia as well as on Palestine; and the passage of the Israelites out of Egypt shows that the land was not far from the Red Sea. The locality of Goshen was probably in Lower Egypt, on the east side of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, in the district around Heroopolis.