16. जब हेरोदेस ने यह देखा, कि ज्योतिषियों ने मेरे साथ ठट्ठा किया है, तब वह क्रोध से भर गया; और लोगों को भेजकर ज्योतिषियों से ठीक ठीक पूछे हुए समय के अनुसार बैतलहम और उसके आस पास के सब लड़कों को जो दो वर्ष के, वा उस से छोटे थे, मरवा डाला।
16. Then Herod, when he realized that he had been misled by the wise men, was furiously enraged, and he sent and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that territory who were two years old and under, reckoning according to the date which he had investigated diligently and had learned exactly from the wise men.