When the Exodus from Egypt began, Rameses is given as the starting point. Most scholars assume that the city is here meant, perhaps being the rendezvous site where the Israelites gathered from various parts of Goshen. But Rameses may here refer to a district, and it may be that the Israelites pulled away from all parts of the district, converging on Succoth as the place of rendezvous.​—Ex 12:37; Nu 33:3-5.

the Jewish tradition that the Exodus march (with Rameses as its starting point) began from the neighborhood of Memphis.