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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 47:11 - 47:11
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Joseph placed his father and his brethren ... in the best of the land - best pasture land in lower Egypt. Goshen, “the land of verdure,” lay along the Pelusiac or eastern branch of the Nile. It included a part of the district of Heliopolis, or “On,” the capital, and on the east stretched out a considerable length into the desert. The ground included within these boundaries was a rich and fertile extent of natural meadow, and admirably adapted for the purposes of the Hebrew shepherds (compare Gen 49:24; Psa 34:10; Psa 78:72).