¹¹Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped him.^F Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.^g ¹²And being warned^h in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

¹³After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.”ⁱ ¹⁴So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and escaped to Egypt. ¹⁵He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: Out of Egypt I called my Son.^A^j

THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS

¹⁶Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.^k ¹⁷Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

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Footnotes

FOr they paid him homage

Cross references

g Ps 72:10; Is 60:6; Mt 1:18; 12:46; Mk 5:6
h Mt 27:19; Lk 2:26; Ac 10:22; Heb 8:5; 11:7
i Mt 1:20; 13:49; Mk 11:18; Jms 4:7
A Hs 11:1
j Ex 4:22; Nm 24:8; Hs 11:1
k Is 59:7; Mk 10:34; Ac 13:6; 25:3; Rv 12:4