Matthew 2:13–18

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