Rameses
Town · today Qantir
Location likely Qantir: about 340 km (210 miles) west of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Qantir Likely
- Tell el Daba Possible
Rameses in the Bible Dictionary · The Exodus
Named in 5 Verses
- Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
- Numbers 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
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