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A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and much grieving. Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were no more.
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When Herod knew the magi had fooled him, he grew very angry. He sent soldiers to kill all the children in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding territory who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.
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This fulfilled the word spoken through Jeremiah the prophet:
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A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and much grieving. Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were no more.
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After King Herod died, an angel from the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
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"Get up," the angel said, "and take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel. Those who were trying to kill the child are dead."