“Get up, take the young child and His mother, and go [back] to the country of Israel, for those who had tried to take the young child’s life are [now] dead.”
Matthew 2:21 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) So he got up, took the young child and His mother and went [back] to the country of Israel. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then he awoke and arose and [tenderly] took the Child and His mother and came into the land of Israel. American Standard Version (1901) And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. Common English Bible Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version And rising up, he took the boy and his mother, and he went into the land of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. |
“Get up, take the young child and His mother, and go [back] to the country of Israel, for those who had tried to take the young child’s life are [now] dead.”
But when he heard that Archelaus was then the king of Judea, in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back. Then, being warned by God in a [supernatural] dream, he went on up to the region called Galilee,
By [having] faith, when Abraham was called [by God] to leave [his homeland] and go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance [i.e., Palestine], he obeyed God and went out, not knowing where he was going.