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Rameses

Nile Delta (northeastern Egypt) · Old Testament · 5 verses

Rameses was a city in the eastern Nile Delta, one of the store cities built by the Israelites and the region where they dwelt. The Exodus began from Rameses. The name appears in Genesis, Exodus, Numbers in the King James text.

About Rameses

Rameses was a city in the eastern Nile Delta, one of the store cities built by the Israelites and the region where they dwelt. The Exodus began from Rameses.

Its place in the story

The land of Rameses was where Joseph settled his family, and the city of Rameses was one of the store cities the Israelites were forced to build. From Rameses the people set out at the start of the Exodus.

Rameses in Scripture (KJV)

“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.”

Genesis 47:11 (KJV)

“Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.”

Exodus 1:11 (KJV)

“And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.”

Exodus 12:37 (KJV)

“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 33:3 (KJV)

“And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.”

Numbers 33:5 (KJV)

Where it leads

As the starting point of the Exodus, Rameses marks the beginning of the journey out of slavery that Scripture holds up as a picture of salvation in Christ.

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