Bible verse

Matthew 2:12

And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.

Matthew 2:12 · BSB

Matthew 2:12 in context

The verses around it, from Matthew 2.

8 And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”

9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the Child was.

10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with great delight.

11 On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

12 And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.

13 When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

14 So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

16 When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

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Matthew 2:12 in other translations

KJV

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

ASV

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

ERV

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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