20 saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead.” 21 So he got up and[a] took the child and his mother and entered[b] the land of Israel. 22 But when he[c] heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream, he took refuge in the regions of Galilee.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:21 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“got up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 2:21 Literally “entered into”
  3. Matthew 2:22 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal