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"A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more."
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Then Herod, finding that the Magi had trifled with him, was furious, and sent and massacred all the boys under two years of age, in Bethlehem and all its neighbourhood, according to the date he had so carefully ascertained from the Magi.
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Then were these words, spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, fulfilled,
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"A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more."
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But after Herod's death an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said to him,
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"Rise from sleep, and take the child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."
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