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After Yeshua was born in Beit-Lechem in the land of Y'hudah during the time when Herod was king, Magi from the east came to Yerushalayim
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and asked, "Where is the newborn King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
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When King Herod heard of this he became very agitated, and so did everyone else in Yerushalayim. He called together all the head cohanim and Torah-teachers
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of the people and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"
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"In BeitLechem of Y'hudah," they replied, "because the prophet wrote,
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`And you, Beit-Lechem in the land of Y'hudah, are by no means the least among the rulers of Y'hudah; for from you will come a Ruler who will shepherd my people Isra'el.'"
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Herod summoned the Magi to meet with him privately and asked them exactly when the star had appeared.
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Then he sent them to Beit-Lechem with these instructions: "Search carefully for the child; and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him."
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After they had listened to the king, they went away; and the star which they had seen in the east went in front of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.