23 “Behold, the virgin will become pregnant[a] and will give birth to a son,
and they will call his name Emmanuel,”[b]

which is translated, “God with us.”[c] 24 And Joseph, when he[d] woke up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and he took his wife 25 and did not have sexual relations with[e] her until she gave birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 1:23 Literally “will have in the womb”
  2. Matthew 1:23 A quotation from Isa 7:14
  3. Matthew 1:23 An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 in the Greek OT (LXX)
  4. Matthew 1:24 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“woke up”) which is understood as temporal
  5. Matthew 1:25 Literally “did not know”