These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Matthew 2
Brit Hadashah 23 verses
- 1 Now after the birth of , which took place at in Judaea in the reign of King Herod, excitement was produced in by the arrival of certain Magi from the east,
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inquiring, “Where is the newly born of the Jews? For we have seen his Star in the east, and have come here to do him homage.”
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Numbers 24:17 Jeremiah 23:5 Zechariah 9:9 Isaiah 9:6-7 John 1:49 Revelation 22:16 John 18:37 Luke 19:38 Luke 23:38 Matthew 27:11 Psalm 2:6 Hebrews 1:6 Jeremiah 30:9 Isaiah 60:3 John 5:23 John 12:13 Luke 23:3 John 20:28 John 19:12-15 Matthew 21:5 Matthew 2:10-11 John 9:38 Luke 2:11 John 19:19 Luke 1:78-79 Isaiah 32:1-2 Psalm 45:11 -
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Reports of this soon reached the , and greatly agitated not only him but all the people of .
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So he assembled all the High Priests and Scribes of the people, and anxiously asked them where the was to be born.
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Acts 23:9 Mark 8:31 Matthew 26:3 Nehemiah 12:7 Matthew 21:23 Jeremiah 8:8 Ezra 7:6 Luke 23:10 Ezra 10:5 2 Chronicles 34:15 Matthew 27:1 Malachi 2:7 Acts 4:5 Matthew 13:52 Matthew 21:15 John 7:32 John 18:3 Ezra 7:11-12 Psalm 2:2 2 Chronicles 34:13 Acts 6:12 Matthew 7:29 2 Chronicles 36:14 1 Chronicles 24:4-19 Luke 20:19 Matthew 26:47 John 3:10 John 8:3 -
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“At in Judaea,” they replied; “for so it stands written in the words of the Prophet,
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“’And thou, in the land of , by no means the least honorable art thou among princely places in ! For from thee shall come a prince—one who shall be the Shepherd of My People .’”
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- 7 Thereupon Herod sent privately for the Magi and ascertained from them the exact time of the star’s appearing.
- 8 He then directed them to go to , adding, “Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and when you have found him, bring me , that I too may come and do him homage.”
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After hearing what the said, they went to , while, strange to say, the star they had seen in the east led them on until it came and stood over the place where the babe was.
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When they saw the star, the sight filled them with intense joy.
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So they entered the house; and when they saw the babe with His mother , they prostrated themselves and did Him homage, and opening their treasure-chests offered gifts to Him—gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
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Psalm 72:10 Isaiah 60:6 Matthew 2:2 Luke 2:38 Acts 10:25-26 Luke 2:16 Luke 2:26-32 Revelation 19:10 Psalm 72:15 Revelation 5:8 1 Samuel 10:27 1 Kings 10:2 John 5:22-23 Revelation 22:8-10 Numbers 7:86 Malachi 1:11 Psalm 95:6 Matthew 14:33 Matthew 4:9-10 Numbers 7:14 Exodus 30:34 Psalm 45:8 1 Kings 10:10 Genesis 43:11 Psalm 2:12 Leviticus 6:15 Exodus 30:23 - 12 But being forbidden by in a dream to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different route.
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When they were gone, and of the Lord appeared to in a dream and said, “Rise: take the babe and His mother and escape to , and remain there till I bring you . For Herod is about to make search for the child in order to destroy Him.”
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Exodus 1:22 Acts 5:19 Matthew 1:20 Acts 10:7 Job 33:15 Matthew 2:12 Acts 12:11 Matthew 2:16 Exodus 2:2-3 Matthew 2:22 Hebrews 1:13-14 Matthew 2:19-20 Joshua 3:17 Revelation 12:6 Revelation 12:14 Matthew 10:23 Acts 16:36 Daniel 3:25-26 Acts 7:19 Joshua 4:10 Joshua 4:18 Job 33:17 Acts 10:22 Revelation 12:4 Joshua 3:13 -
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So roused himself and took the babe and His mother by night and departed into .
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- 15 There he remained till Herod’s death, that what the Lord had said through the Prophet might be fulfilled, “Out of I called My Son.”
- 16 Then Herod, finding that the Magi had trifled with him, was furious, and sent and massacred all the boys under two years of age, in and all its neighbourhood, according to the date he had so carefully ascertained from the Magi.
- 17 Then were these words, spoken by the Prophet , fulfilled,
- 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more.”
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But after Herod’s death an of the Lord appeared in a dream to in , and said to him,
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“Rise from sleep, and take the child and His mother, and go into the land of , for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”
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So he roused himself and took the child and His mother and came into the land of .
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- 22 But hearing that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod on the throne of Judaea, he was afraid to go there; and being instructed by in a dream he withdrew into ,
- 23 and went and settled in a town called , in order that these words spoken through the Prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”