Now after the wisemen had left, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, Get up! Tenderly take unto you the young Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there til I tell you otherwise; for Herod intends to search for the Child in order to destroy Him. And having risen, he took the Child and His mother by night and withdrew to Egypt. They remained there until Herod's death. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, Out of Egypt have I called My Son. (Hos. 11:1). Then Herod, when he realized that he had been misled by the wisemen, was furiously enraged, and he sent and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that territory who were two years old or under, reckoning accordingly to the date which he had investigated diligently and learned exactly from the wisemen.
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they were on more (Jer. 31:15). But when Herod died, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, Rise, tenderly take unto you the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the Child's life are dead. Then he awoke and arose and tenderly took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel. But because he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there; and being divinely warned in a dream he withdrew to the region of Galilee. He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled: He shall be called a Nazarene (meaning Branch Separated One; Isa. 11:1).