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But they had been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, so they took another route back to their own country.
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After they had gone, an angel of ADONAI appeared to Yosef in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to kill him."
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So he got up, took the child and his mother, and left during the night for Egypt,
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where he stayed until Herod died. This happened in order to fulfill what ADONAI had said through the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."
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Meanwhile, when Herod realized that the Magi had tricked him, he was furious and gave orders to kill all the boys in and around Beit-Lechem who were two years old or less, calculating from the time the Magi had told him.
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In this way were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Yirmeyahu,
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"A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and lamenting loudly. It was Rachel sobbing for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no longer alive."
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After Herod's death, an angel of ADONAI appeared in a dream to Yosef in Egypt
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and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to Eretz-Yisra'el, for those who wanted to kill the child are dead."
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So he got up, took the child and his mother, and went back to Eretz-Yisra'el.
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However, when he heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Y'hudah, he was afraid to go there. Warned in a dream, he withdrew to the Galil