the land of Rameses] That is not a Towne or a City, (though there were a Citie of that name built a good while after this by the Israelites, Exodus 1:11.) but a speciall part of the Province of Goshen, (as an Hundred within a Countie) where Jacob and his sonnes were first placed by themselves, but afterward multiplying into a great number, they spread further, and had Egyptian families neere unto them, and among them, whence it was that the Angels distinguished their doores by the sprinkling of blood, Exod. 12. vers. 7. 23. and that the Israelites departing borrowed jewels of their neighbours the Egyptians, Exod. Chap. 12. vers. 35. 37.