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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying:
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A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
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But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt,
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Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.
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Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
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But hearing that Archclaus reigned in Judea in the room of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep retired into the quarters of Galilee.
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And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.