# Matthew 2

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/2

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. In the days of Herod the king, after Jesus' birth in Bethlehem of Judea, behold, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem.
2. Saying, “Where is the king of the Jews who was born? For we saw his star in the east, and came to worship him.”
3. When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
4. Having assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ is born.
5. They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea—for thus it stands written through the prophet.”
6. And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, are by no means least among Judah's rulers, for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel.
7. Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and inquired of them diligently the time of the star's appearing.
8. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go search carefully for the child; when you find him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship him."
9. After hearing the king, they departed; look, the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it came and stood over where the child was.
10. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
11. Coming into the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, prostrated themselves before him in worship, then opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
12. And warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their country by another way.
13. After they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt; stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him."
14. Then he arose, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew into Egypt.
15. He stayed there until Herod's death, so that what the Lord had spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: "Out of Egypt I called my son."
16. Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the wise men, became greatly enraged, sent, and killed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its borders, from two years old and younger, according to the time he had ascertained precisely from the wise men.
17. Then what was said through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
18. A voice sounded in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and unwilling to be comforted, because they are no more.
19. But after Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream in Egypt.
20. Saying, get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the child's life are dead.
21. Then he got up, took the child and his mother, and entered the land of Israel.
22. But hearing that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there; but warned in a dream, he withdrew into the regions of Galilee.
23. And he came and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.

## Nearby chapters

[Matthew 1](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/1.md)
[Matthew 3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/3.md)

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