Matthew 2
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Matthew 2:12-22

12And having been warned [by God] in a dream not to go back to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.

13Now when they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod intends to search for the Child in order to destroy Him.”

14So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt.

15He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet [Hosea]: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

16Then Herod, when he realized that he had been tricked by the magi, was extremely angry, and he sent [soldiers] and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that area who were two years old and under, according to the date which he had learned from the magi.

17Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

18“A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; She refused to be comforted, Because they were no more.”

19But when Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said,

20“Get up! Take the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”

21Then Joseph got up, and took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.

22But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod [the Great], he was afraid to go there. Then being warned by God in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee,

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