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“A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for they are dead.”
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When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
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“Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead.”
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So Joseph got up and returned to the land of Israel with Jesus and his mother.
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But when he learned that the new ruler of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee.
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So the family went and lived in a town called Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said: “He will be called a Nazarene.”