12And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.


In Context

9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,

Matthew 2:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their country.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And being warned by God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.