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18 ‘People heard a sad noise in Ramah.
    Someone is weeping with a loud voice.
It is Rachel and she is weeping for her children.
    Nobody can help her to stop weeping,
    because her children are dead.’

Joseph, Mary and Jesus return to Israel

19 After Herod died, Joseph had a dream in Egypt. In the dream he saw one of the Lord God's angels. 20 The angel said to Joseph, ‘Get up. The people who wanted to kill the child are dead. Take the child and his mother. You can now return with them to Israel.’

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