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Goshen
Goshen was the land in Egypt where Jacob's family settled after going down there in the time of Joseph. In Exodus it appears as the land that God set apart as the dwelling place of the Israelites when He sent the plagues.
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- Genesis 46Bible
Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.
- Genesis 47Bible
Genesis 47 is the chapter in which Joseph presents his father and brothers to Pharaoh and settles them in the land of Goshen. During the famine he acquires, in turn, the Egyptians' money, livestock, and land for Pharaoh, and the aged Jacob makes Joseph swear to bury him in Canaan.
- Anders NygrenPeople
Anders Nygren (1890–1978) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop. In *Agape and Eros* he offered a systematic account of the Christian concept of love.