¹¹Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped Him. ^tThen they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. ^u¹²And being warned ^vin 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 suddenly 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 destroy Him.” ^w¹⁴So 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. ^x^y

The Massacre of the Innocents

¹⁶Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years ^zold and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men. ^a¹⁷Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

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Footnotes

t2:11 Or they paid Him homage
z2:16 were from two years

Cross references

u2:11 Ps 72:10; Is 60:6; Mt 1:18; 12:46; Mk 5:6
v2:12 Mt 27:19; Lk 2:26; Ac 10:22; Heb 8:5; 11:7
w2:13 Mt 1:20; 13:49; Mk 11:18; Jms 4:7
x2:15 Ex 4:22; Nm 24:8; Hs 11:1
y2:15 Hs 11:1
a2:16 Is 59:7; Mk 10:34; Ac 13:6; 25:3; Rv 12:4