8. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”
9. After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.
10. When they saw the star they shouted joyfully.
11. As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
12. After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.
13. After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”
14. Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.
15. He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”
16. When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.
17. Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
18. “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone.”
19. After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt