have found him,
bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”
9 They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which
they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where
the young child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with
exceedingly great joy. 11 They came into the house and saw the young child
with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their
treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
12 Being warned in a dream that they shouldn’t return to Herod, they went
back to their own country another way.
13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to
Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother,
and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the
young child to destroy him.”
14 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed
into Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of
Egypt I called my son.”
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was
exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in
Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and
under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled,
saying,
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
She wouldn’t be comforted,
Because they are no more.”
19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a
dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 20 “Arise and take the young child and
his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young
child’s life are dead.”
21 He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the
land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over
Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being
warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, 23 and came and
lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
1 The word for “wise men” (magoi) can also
mean teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of
dreams, or sorcerers.
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