Matthew 2:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star,

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  • Exod 1:10 : 10 give help! let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it hath come to pass, when war happeneth, that it hath been joined, even it, unto those hating us, and hath fought against us, and hath gone out up of the land.'
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 and Saul saith, `I give her to him, and she is to him for a snare, and the hand of the Philistines is on him;' and Saul saith unto David, `By the second -- thou dost become my son-in-law to-day.'
  • Ps 10:9-9 : 9 He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net. 10 He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.
  • Ps 64:4-6 : 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep.
  • Ps 83:3-4 : 3 Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from `being' a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
  • Isa 7:5-7 : 5 Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying: 6 We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst -- The son of Tabeal. 7 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!
  • Ezek 38:10-11 : 10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought, 11 And thou hast said: I go up against a land of unwalled villages, I go in to those at rest, dwelling confidently, All of them are dwelling without walls, And bar and doors they have not.
  • Matt 26:3-5 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him', 5 and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'
  • Rev 12:1-5 : 1 And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, 2 and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth. 3 And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems, 4 and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour; 5 and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,
  • Rev 12:15 : 15 and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,

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    1And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem,

    2saying, `Where is he who was born king of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and we came to bow to him.'

    3And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,

    4and having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born.

    5And they said to him, `In Beth-Lehem of Judea, for thus it hath been written through the prophet,

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  • Matt 2:8-17
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    8and having sent them to Beth-Lehem, he said, `Having gone -- inquire ye exactly for the child, and whenever ye may have found, bring me back word, that I also having come may bow to him.'

    9And they, having heard the king, departed, and lo, the star, that they did see in the east, did go before them, till, having come, it stood over where the child was.

    10And having seen the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy,

    11and having come to the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they bowed to him, and having opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh,

    12and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.

    13And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

    14And he, having risen, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

    15and he was there till the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, `Out of Egypt I did call My Son.'

    16Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

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    21And he, having risen, took the child and his mother, and came to the land of Israel,

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    16And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger,

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