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Micah 5:2-4
Evangelical Heritage Version

2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    though you are small among the clans of Judah,
    from you, will go out the one who will be the ruler for me in Israel.
    His goings forth[a] are from the beginning, from the days of eternity.[b]

3 Therefore the Lord[c] will give them up,
    until the time when the woman who is in labor bears a child.[d]
    Then the remaining survivors from his brothers will return to the people of Israel.

4 He will stand and shepherd with the strength of the Lord,
    in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
    They will dwell securely, for at that time he will be great to the ends of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 The term goings forth, which is plural in Hebrew, has been understood in three ways: 1) as a reference to the eternal generation (begetting) of the Son, who goes out from the Father; 2) as a reference to the human origins of the Messiah, who descends from the patriarchs; 3) as a reference to the appearances of Christ as the Angel of the Lord, throughout the Old Testament.
  2. Micah 5:2 Or from days of old
  3. Micah 5:3 The Hebrew reads he, without specifying the antecedent.
  4. Micah 5:3 This is the same woman and child who appear in Isaiah 7:14.
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