Matthew

Flight into Egypt and the Slaughter of the Innocents

Chapter 2

¹³ Now after they had departed, an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying: "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him." ¹⁴ But he arose, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt. ¹⁵ And he was there until the death of Herod, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: "Out of Egypt I called my Son." ¹⁶ Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the Magi, was exceedingly angry. Sending men, he killed all the children—the ones in Bethlehem and in all its borders—from two years old and downward, according to the time which he had learned precisely from the Magi. ¹⁷ Then was fulfilled what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying: ¹⁸ A voice in Ramah was heard, weeping and much wailing; Rachel weeping for her children, and she was not willing to be comforted because they are not.

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