16 Then Herod, seeing he had been outwitted by the astrologers,* fell into a great rage, and he sent out and had all the boys in Bethʹle·hem and in all its districts done away with, from two years of age and under, according to the time that he had carefully ascertained from the astrologers.+

19 This one used statecraft against our race*+ and wrongfully forced the fathers to expose their infants, that they might not be preserved alive.+