The Land of Goshen is named in the Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph (Genesis 45:9 - 10), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It was located in the eastern Delta.
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Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
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The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
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Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
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