Matthew 2:20
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New International Version
and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead."


English Standard Version
saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”


New American Standard Bible
"Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child's life are dead."


King James Bible
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
saying, "Get up! Take the child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, because those who sought the child's life are dead."


International Standard Version
"Get up," he said. "Take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead."


American Standard Version
Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child's life.


Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.


Darby Bible Translation
Arise, take to thee the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.


Young's Literal Translation
saying, 'Having risen, take the child and his mother, and be going to the land of Israel, for they have died -- those seeking the life of the child.'


Commentaries
2:19-23 Egypt may serve to sojourn in, or take shelter in, for awhile, but not to abide in. Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, to them he must return. Did we but look upon the world as our Egypt, the place of our bondage and banishment, and heaven only as our Canaan, our home, our rest, we should as readily arise and depart thither, when we are called for, as Joseph did out of Egypt. The family must settle in Galilee. Nazareth was a place held in bad esteem, and Christ was crucified with this accusation, Jesus the Nazarene. Wherever Providence allots the bounds of our habitation, we must expect to share the reproach of Christ; yet we may glory in being called by his name, sure that if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.

20. Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel—not to the land of Judea, for he was afterward expressly warned not to settle there, nor to Galilee, for he only went thither when he found it unsafe to settle in Judea but to "the land of Israel," in its most general sense; meaning the Holy Land at large—the particular province being not as yet indicated. So Joseph and the Virgin had, like Abraham, to "go out, not knowing whither they went," till they should receive further direction.

for they are dead which sought the young child's life—a common expression in most languages where only one is meant, who here is Herod. But the words are taken from the strikingly analogous case in Ex 4:19, which probably suggested the plural here; and where the command is given to Moses to return to Egypt for the same reason that the greater than Moses was now ordered to be brought back from it—the death of him who sought his life. Herod died in the seventieth year of his age, and thirty-seventh of his reign.

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