The Good News According to Mattityahu, Chapter 2
{2:1} Now when Yeshua was born in Beit-Lechem of Yehudah in the days
of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to
Yerushalayim, saying, {2:2} "Where is he who is born King of the
Yehudim? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship
him." {2:3} When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all
Yerushalayim with him. {2:4} Gathering together all the chief
[1>]Kohanim[<1] and [2>]Sofrim[<2] of the people, he asked them where
the Messiah would be born. {2:5} They said to him, "In Beit-Lechem of
Yehudah, for thus it is written through the prophet,
{2:6} 'You Beit-Lechem, land of Yehudah,
Are in no way least among the princes of Yehudah:
For out of you shall come forth a governor,
Who shall shepherd my people, Yisra'el.'"
{2:7} Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them
exactly what time the star appeared. {2:8} He sent them to
Beit-Lechem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child.
When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and
worship him."
{2:9} They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the
star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and
stood over where the young child was. {2:10} When they saw the star,
they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. {2:11} They came into the
house and saw the young child with Miryam, his mother, and they fell
down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him
gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. {2:12} Being warned in a dream
that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to their own
country another way.
{2:13} Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to Yosef in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child
and his mother, and flee into Mitzrayim, and stay there until I tell
you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."
{2:14} He arose and took the young child and his mother by night,
and departed into Mitzrayim, {2:15} and was there until the death of
Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through
the prophet, saying, "Out of Mitzrayim I called my son."
{2:16} Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men,
was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children
who were in Beit-Lechem and in all the surrounding countryside, from
two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had
learned from the wise men. {2:17} Then that which was spoken by
Yirmeyahu the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
{2:18} "A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
She wouldn't be comforted,
Because they are no more."
{2:19} But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared in a dream to Yosef in Mitzrayim, saying, {2:20} "Arise and
take the young child and his mother, and go into Eretz-Yisra'el, for
those who sought the young child's life are dead."
{2:21} He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came
into Eretz-Yisra'el. {2:22} But when he heard that Archelaus was
reigning over Yehudah in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid
to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of
the Galil, {2:23} and came and lived in a city called Natzeret; that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: "He will
be called a Natzri."
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:4} priests
[2] {2:4} scribes
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