Matthew 2:13-18

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The Escape to Egypt

¹³When they had gone, an angel^(A) of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.^(B) “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”^(C)

¹⁴So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, ¹⁵where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled^(D) what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”^[a]^(E)

¹⁶When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. ¹⁷Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:^(F)

¹⁸“A voice is heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel^(G) weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,
    because they are no more.”^[b]^(H)

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Footnotes

Matthew 2:15 Hosea 11:1
Matthew 2:18 Jer. 31:15

Hosea 11:1

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God’s Love for Israel

11 “When Israel was a child,^(A) I loved^(B) him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.^(C)

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Hosea 11:1 in all English translations

Proverbs 21:30

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³⁰There is no wisdom,^(A) no insight, no plan
that can succeed against the Lord.^(B)

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Proverbs 21:30 in all English translations

Jeremiah 31:15

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¹⁵This is what the Lord says:

“A voice is heard in Ramah,^(A)
    mourning and great weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,^(B)
    because they are no more.”^(C)