Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

But from the first, male and female made he them.

(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who was to have rule over all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was taken up to God and to his high seat.

And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.