WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The land of Goshen (Hebrew: , ʾEreṣ Gōšen) is named in the Hebrew Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph (Book of Genesis, Genesis 45:9–10), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus.

Detailed explanation-2: -As early as the 3rd century BCE, there was a widespread diaspora of Jews in many Egyptian towns and cities. In Josephus’s history, it is claimed that, after the first Ptolemy took Judea, he led some 120, 000 Jewish captives to Egypt from the areas of Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, and Mount Gerizim.