Matthew 2:13-15

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Travels to Egypt

¹³ After the Magi had gone, suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

“Get up,” he said, “and take the child, and his mother, and hurry off to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to hunt for the child, to kill him.”

¹⁴ So he got up and took the child and his mother by night, and went off to Egypt. ¹⁵ He stayed there until the death of Herod. This happened to fulfill what the Lord said through the prophet: