These verses are Matthew 2:1–23 in the Peshitta tradition.
1
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, Magi came from the East to Jerusalem.
2
They were saying, “Where is the king of the Jews who has been born? For we saw his star in the East, and we have come to bow before him.”
3
When Herod the king heard, he was shaken, and all Jerusalem with him.
4
He gathered all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and he was asking them where the Messiah would be born.
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They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written in the prophet:
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‘You, Bethlehem of Judea, you are certainly not least among the kings of Judah, for from you shall come the king who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
7
Then Herod secretly called the Magi and learned from them the exact time the star appeared.
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He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go, search carefully for the child, and when you have found him, come tell me, so that I also may go and bow before him.”
9
After they heard the king, they went, and the star they saw in the East went before them until it came and stood over the place where the child was.
10
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with very great joy.
11
They entered the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell and bowed before him. They opened their treasures and brought him offerings: gold, and myrrh, and frankincense.
12
They were seen (warned) in a dream not to return to Herod, and they went by another road to their country.
13
After they had gone, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is going to seek the child, to destroy him.”
14
Joseph rose, took the child and his mother by night, and fled to Egypt.
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He was there until the death of Herod, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
16
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been mocked by the Magi, became very angry. He sent and killed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its surroundings, from two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
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Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
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“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great lamentation: Rachel weeping for her children, and she was not willing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
19
When Herod the king had died, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
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and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life have died.”
21
Joseph rose, took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
22
But when he heard that Archelaus was king in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. He was shown (warned) in a dream and went to the region of Galilee.
23
He came and lived in the city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets would be fulfilled: “He shall be called a Nazarene.”
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