Exodus 1:22
22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, a“Every son that is born to the Hebrews ▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks to the Hebrews
you shall cast into cthe Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” Matthew 2:13
The Flight to Egypt
13Now when they had departed, behold, dan angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”Matthew 2:16
Herod Kills the Children
16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.Acts 7:19
19 eHe dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, fso that they would not be kept alive.
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