NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Matthew 2:21

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He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

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Matthew 2:18–23

18

“A voice was heard in Ramah,

lamentation, weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children;

she wouldn’t be comforted,

because they are no more.”

19

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

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“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”

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He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

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But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,

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and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

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