1 En toe Jesus te Betlehem in Judiagebore is, in die dae van koning Herodes, het daar wyse manne uit die Ooste in Jerusalem aangekom

2 en gesê: Waar is die Koning van die Jode, wat gebore is? Want ons het sy ster in die Ooste gesien en gekom om Hom hulde te bewys.

3 En toe koning Herodes dit hoor, was hy ontsteld en die hele Jerusalem saam met hom;

4 en hy het al die owerpriesters en die skrifgeleerdes van die volk bymekaar laat kom en by hulle navraag gedoen waar die Christus gebore sou word.

5 En hulle het vir hom gesê: Te Betlehem in Jud,a, want so is daar deur die profeet geskrywe:

6 En jy, Betlehem, land van Juda, is volstrek nie die geringste onder die vorste van Juda nie, want uit jou sal 'n leidsman voortkom wat vir my volk Israel 'n herder sal wees.

7 Toe het Herodes die wyse manne in die geheim geroep en hulle na die tyd van die ster se verskyning uitgevra;

8 en hy het hulle na Betlehem gestuur en gesê: Gaan doen noukeurig ondersoek na die Kindjie, en as julle Hom vind, laat my weet, sodat ek ook kan gaan en Hom hulde bewys.

9 En nadat hulle die koning aangehoor het, het hulle vertrek. En kyk, die ster wat hulle in die Ooste gesien het, gaan voor hulle uit totdat hy kom en bly staan bo-oor die plek waar die Kindjie was.

10 En toe hulle die ster sien, het hulle hul met baie groot blydskap verheug.

11 En hulle het in die huis gegaan en die Kindjie by Maria, sy moeder, gevind en neergeval en Hom hulde bewys. Daarop maak hulle hul skatte oop en bring vir Hom geskenke: goud en wierook en mirre.

12 En omdat hulle in 'n droom 'n goddelike waarskuwing ontvang het om nie na Herodes terug te keer nie, het hulle met 'n ander pad na hul land teruggegaan.

13 En toe hulle teruggegaan het, verskyn daar 'n engel van die HERE in 'n droom aan Josef en sê: Staan op, neem die Kindjie en sy moeder en vlug na Egipte, en bly daar totdat ek jou sê; want Herodes gaan die Kindjie soek om Hom dood te maak.

14 Hy het toe opgestaan, die Kindjie en sy moeder in die nag geneem en na Egipte vertrek.

15 En hy was daar tot die dood van Herodes, sodat die woord vervul sou word wat die Here gespreek het deur die profeet: Uit Egipte het Ek my Seun geroep.

16 Toe Herodes sien dat hy deur die wyse manne mislei was, het hy baie woedend geword en gestuur en in Betlehem en in al die omstreke daarvan al die seuntjies van twee jaar en daaronder laat ombring, ooreenkomstig die tyd wat hy van die wyse manne uitgevra het.

17 Toe is vervul wat deur Jeremia, die profeet, gespreek is toe hy gesê het:

18 'n Stem is in Rama gehoor: rouklag en geween en groot gekerm; Ragel beween haar kinders en wil nie vertroos word nie, omdat hulle daar nie meer is nie.

19 En n die dood van Herodes het daar 'n engel van die Here in 'n droom aan Josef in Egipte verskyn

20 en gesê: Staan op, neem die Kindjie en sy moeder, en gaan na die land van Israel; want hulle is dood wat die lewe van die Kindjie gesoek het.

21 En hy het opgestaan, die Kindjie en sy moeder geneem en in die land van Israel gekom.

22 Maar toe hy hoor dat Archel s oor Judiakoning was in die plek van sy vader Herodes, was hy bevrees om daarheen te gaan. En hy het 'n goddelike waarskuwing in 'n droom ontvang en na die streke van Galil,a teruggekeer.

23 En hy het gaan woon in 'n stad met die naam van N saret, sodat vervul sou word wat deur die profete gespreek is, dat Hy Nasar,ner genoem sou word.

1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, 2 Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born. 5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written through the prophet,

6 And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah,

Art in no wise least among the princes of Judah:

For out of thee shall come forth a governor,

Who shall be shepherd of my people Israel.

7 Then Herod privily called the Wise-men, and learned of them exactly what time the star appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search out exactly concerning the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word, that I also may come and worship him. 9 And they, having heard the king, went their way; and lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 10 And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. 11 And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshipped him; and opening their treasures they offered unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

13 Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I tell thee: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. 14 And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt; 15 and was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt did I call my son.

16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men. 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

18 A voice was heard in Ramah,

Weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children;

And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 20 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. 21 And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judæa in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither; and being warned of God in a dream, he withdrew into the parts of Galilee, 23 and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, that he should be called a Nazarene.