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What was the relationship between Herod the Great and Joseph?

An angel warned Joseph in a dream that Herod was searching for the child. Joseph fled by night to Egypt with Jesus and Mary. He came back when Herod died. Matthew 2:13-14, 19-21

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Matthew 2:14

Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:

Matthew 2:19

But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt,

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

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