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The History of Joseph the Carpenter

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Section 9

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9. Now Herod died by the worst form of death

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,

atoning

for

the

shedding

of

the

blood

of

the

children

whom

he

wickedly

cut

off

,

though

there

was

no

sin

in

them

.

And

that

impious

tyrant

Herod

being

dead

,

they

returned

into

the

land

of

Israel

,

and

lived

in

a

city

of

Galilee

which

is

called

Nazareth

.

And

Joseph

,

going

back

to

his

trade

of

a

carpenter

,

earned

his

living

by

the

work

of

his

hands

;

for

,

as

the

law

of

Moses

had

commanded

,

he

never

sought

to

live

for

nothing

by

another’s

labour

.

Notes

16
Gen. iii. 19.