Matthew 2:19–23
19But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,↗
20“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.”↗
21He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.↗
22But 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,↗
23and 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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