Genesis 46:5

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Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Canaan was the promised land Jacob’s family was leaving, while Egypt was the land to which they traveled under God’s providential direction. Goshen, later their settlement in Egypt, and Heliopolis, an Egyptian city, belong to the wider setting; Paddan-aram was Jacob’s earlier homeland in Mesopotamia

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Genesis 46:5 mentions Canaan, Egypt, Goshen, Heliopolis and Paddan-aram.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

Photo of Heliopolis — Heliopolis · Neithsabes