Land of plenty

Usage examples of goshen.

The city was laid out near the center of Goshen, a long strip of fertile country given over to the Israelites since the days of the Hyksos king, Apepa, near the year 1800 B.

If those cowed shepherds that have strayed now and again out of Goshen be Hebrews, then these are not.

I shall make a journey into Goshen, find Mesu and bid him meet thee at a certain place.

Rachel said they had flown to Goshen, where there were grain and grasses.

The other crossed the northwestern limits of Goshen and went toward Tanis, in the northeast.

Perhaps the wind from Goshen brought the smell of unblighted pastures.

A slow-moving, fragmentary cloud had gathered in the zenith just after dawn and for many minutes over the northern part of Goshen there had been a perpendicular downpour of illuminated rain.

Seti had crossed the border into Goshen at daybreak and was now well into the grazing-lands, yet scintillating with the rain.

Seti looked upon the beautiful prosperity of Goshen at first with the natural delight loveliness inspires, and then with as much savage resentment as his young soul could feel.

CHAPTER XLI THE ANGEL OF DEATH Kenkenes had spent two weeks in Goshen in systematic search for Rachel.

The lights winked out over Goshen and the hamlets were not visible except as Kenkenes came upon them.

The land of Goshen lay east and west, with a slight divergence toward the north.

Toward the end of the first watch, at the northern borders of the district known as Succoth, at the extreme east of Goshen, he came upon a mighty track.

The last one he questioned was a countryman from Goshen, and from him he learned that the army was assembling in a great pasture on the southern limits of the Israelitish country.

I was in the land of Goshen, the night of death, and the God of Israel spared me.