12 And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
Matthew 2:12
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21 So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he learned that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of…
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