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Matthew 2:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Matthew 2:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.[a]
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- 2:4 Herod’s consultation with the chief priests and scribes has some similarity to a Jewish legend about the child Moses in which the “sacred scribes” warn Pharaoh about the imminent birth of one who will deliver Israel from Egypt and the king makes plans to destroy him.
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