Rameses

Rameses (also Raamses or Ramses) appears in the Old Testament both as the store-city built by Israelite slaves (Exodus 1:11) and as the district from which Israel departed at the Exodus (Genesis 47:11; Exodus 12:37; Numbers 33:3). The name derives from the Egyptian royal name Ramesses (Ra has fashioned him), most famously borne by Ramesses II (c. 1279–1213 BC), who built the eastern Delta capital Pi-Ramesses near modern Qantir. Israel's departure from Rameses to Succoth on the night of the Passover is the first stage of the Exodus route. Genesis 47:11 calls the district where Jacob's family settled the land of Rameses, suggesting the Goshen region in the eastern Nile Delta.