364-365 : Joseph ,Mary And Jesus Head For Jerusalem For The Census
WHEN the wise men had departed,
the angel of the Lord appeared and spoke to Joseph in a dream,
saying:"Arise, and take the young child and his mother,
and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word.
For Herod will seek the child to destroy Him."
So he arose and took the young child and his mother into Egypt.
And there they remained until the death of Herod,
that the word of the prophet of the Lord might be fulfilled:
"Out of Egypt have I called my son."
When Herod saw that the wise men had deceived him, he was geatly angered.
He ordered that all the children under two years old in Bethlehem
and the land around should be put to death,
in accordance with the time he had learned from the wise men.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet:
"in Rama was there a voice heard, lamenting, and weeping and mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were no more."
But when Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying:
"Rise up and take the young child and His mother and go into the land of Israel.
For those who sought the child's life are dead."
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