¹¹And when they^* came into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and^* worshiped him. And opening their treasure boxes, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. ¹²And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by another route.

Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Escape to Egypt

¹³Now after they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.” ¹⁴So he got up and^* took the child and his mother during the night and went away to Egypt. ¹⁵And he was there until the death of Herod, in order that what was said by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,

“Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Herod Has Innocent Children Murdered

¹⁶Then Herod, when he^* saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent soldiers^* and^* executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region around it from the age of two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men. ¹⁷Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying,

¹⁸“A voice was heard in Ramah,

weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children,

and she did not want to be comforted,

because they exist no longer^d.”^e

Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Return to Nazareth

¹⁹Now after^* Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, ²⁰saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead.” ²¹So he got up and^* took the child and his mother and entered^f the land of Israel. ²²But when he^* heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream, he took refuge in the regions of Galilee. ²³And he came and^* lived in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was said by the prophets would be fulfilled:^g “He will be called a Nazarene.”

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Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“fell down”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“got up”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sent”) has been translated as a finite verb
dLiterally “they are not”
eA quotation from Jer 31:15
*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“had died”)
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“got up”) has been translated as a finite verb
fLiterally “entered into”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
gLiterally “that”; the conjunction could be understood (1) to introduce a direct quotation, serving a function similar to modern English quotation marks, and thus not translated; or (2) to introduce an indirect quotation, in which case it could be translated “that he would be called a Nazarene”