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In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true:
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"A sound is heard in Ramah, 1 the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; she refuses to be comforted, for they are dead."
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After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
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and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go back to the land of Israel, because those who tried to kill the child are dead."
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So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went back to Israel.
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But when Joseph heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea, he was afraid to go there. He was given more instructions in a dream, so he went to the province of Galilee
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and made his home in a town named Nazareth. And so what the prophets had said came true: "He will be called a Nazarene." 2