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And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
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Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to [thee] the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.
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And, having arisen, he took to [him] the little child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.
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And he was there until the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by [the] Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
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Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.
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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying,
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A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
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But Herod having died, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
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Arise, take to [thee] the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.
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And he arose and took to [him] the little child and its mother, and came into the land of Israel;
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but having heard that 'Archelaus reigns over Judaea, instead of Herod his father,' he was afraid to go there; and having been divinely instructed in a dream, he went away into the parts of Galilee,