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2:1  After Yeshua was born in Beit-Lechem in the land of Y’hudah during the time when Herod was king, Magi from the east came to Yerushalayim
2:2  and asked, “Where is the newborn King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”
2:3  When King Herod heard of this he became very agitated, and so did everyone else in Yerushalayim.
2:4  He called together all the head cohanim and Torah-teachers of the people and asked them, “Where will the Messiah be born?”
2:5  “In Beit-Lechem of Y’hudah,” they replied, “because the prophet wrote,
2:6  ‘And you, Beit-Lechem in the land of Y’hudah, are by no means the least among the rulers of Y’hudah; for from you will come a Ruler who will shepherd my people Isra’el.’”
2:7  Herod summoned the Magi to meet with him privately and asked them exactly when the star had appeared.
2:8  Then he sent them to Beit-Lechem with these instructions: “Search carefully for the child; and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him.”
2:9  After they had listened to the king, they went away; and the star which they had seen in the east went in front of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.
2:10  When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
2:11  Upon entering the house, they saw the child with his mother Miryam; and they prostrated themselves and worshipped him. Then they opened their bags and presented him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
2:12  But they had been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, so they took another route back to their own country.
2:13  After they had gone, an angel of Adonai appeared to Yosef in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to kill him.”
2:14  So he got up, took the child and his mother, and left during the night for Egypt,
2:15  where he stayed until Herod died. This happened in order to fulfill what Adonai had said through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
2:16  Meanwhile, when Herod realized that the Magi had tricked him, he was furious and gave orders to kill all the boys in and around Beit-Lechem who were two years old or less, calculating from the time the Magi had told him.
2:17  In this way were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Yirmeyahu,
2:18  “A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and lamenting loudly. It was Rachel sobbing for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no longer alive.”
2:19  After Herod’s death, an angel of Adonai appeared in a dream to Yosef in Egypt
2:20  and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to Eretz-Yisra’el, for those who wanted to kill the child are dead.”
2:21  So he got up, took the child and his mother, and went back to Eretz-Yisra’el.
2:22  However, when he heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Y’hudah, he was afraid to go there. Warned in a dream, he withdrew to the Galil
2:23  and settled in a town called Natzeret, so that what had been spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he will be called a Natzrati.