Matthew 2:20
“Saying, Arise, and take the yong childe and his mother, and goe into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the yong childes life.”
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Matthew 2:20 Context
18In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. 19¶ But when Herode was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeareth in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypt, 20Saying, Arise, and take the yong childe and his mother, and goe into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the yong childes life. 21And he arose, and tooke the yong childe and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22But when he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in the roome of his father Herod, hee was afraid to goe thither: notwithstanding, beeing warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
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Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
- King James Version
"Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child's life are dead."
- New American Standard Version (1995)