The city Israel departs FROM — ‘they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day’ (Numbers 33:3). Exodus 1:11 (already on these pages) already names it as one of the two store-cities built by forced labor; Numbers 33 is where it becomes the fixed point every other station in the wilderness itinerary is measured against. ⚠ The identification with Pi-Ramesses (Qantir/Tell el-Dab'a) is widely held but not certain — the name could describe the wider region rather than one specific city, and the Egyptian royal name Ramesses covers eleven pharaohs across three centuries, which is part of why this project’s own dating discussion elsewhere treats the Exodus pharaoh’s identity as an open question rather than a name this text supplies directly.