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Generations of Israel’s household live with their flocks in Goshen.
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Genesis 47:27-28

Life in Goshen and Passing Years

Goshen, Famine, and a Father’s Oath · Genesis 47

Story guide: Israel settles and multiplies in Goshen; Jacob lives there seventeen years and reaches one hundred forty-seven.

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27So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they gained possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

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