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Rameses

City in the Bible

Other names: Raamses

Location: 30.80° N, 31.83° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)

Mentioned in 4 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Rameses is mentioned

  • Exodus 12:37

    The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

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  • Genesis 47:11

    So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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  • Numbers 33:3–5

    3 On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

    4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.

    5 The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

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