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So Joseph took the child and his mother that very night,

and left Bethlehem to do as the angel had told him. In

Egypt they were safe, for

Herod had no power there,

and could not touch them,

even if he had been able to

find out that they had gone

there. Probably he never

knew that he had not killed

the boy king when he sent

his soldiers to the city where

he had been born.

They lived in Egypt till

the wicked king Herod died.

We do not know what they

did there, or where they

stayed, although many sto¬

ries are told about them.

They probably lived very

quietly.

After the death of Herod

Joseph dreamed again, and

again the angel came to him,

saying, “ Rise, take the child

and his mother, and go back

to your own land; for they are dead who sought to kill the child.»

Joseph obeyed this dream as he had the other.

But they did not go to Bethlehem to live; for they heard that,

although the king Herod was dead, yet his son Archelaus, who was

ruler there now, was a very wicked man. They went to Nazareth,

the early home of Joseph and Mary. There Jesus lived all the

years of his childhood, and all but three years of his whole life.

Flight into Egypt