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17 Then what was declared by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled when he said,

18 “A voice was heard in Ramah:
    wailing and great mourning.
Rachel was crying for her children.
    She refused to be comforted,
        because they no longer existed.”[a]

The Return to Nazareth

19 But after Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:18 Cf. Jer 31:15