Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Return to Nazareth

19 Now after[a] Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead.” 21 So he got up and[b] took the child and his mother and entered[c] the land of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:19 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“had died”)
  2. Matthew 2:21 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“got up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Matthew 2:21 Literally “entered into”