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A:More usually known as the Massacre of the Innocents, the massacre of the children is in Matthew's Gospel. When King Herod heard that a new king of the Jews was born in Bethlehem, he ordered all the boys under two years old to be slaughtered. The author of Matthew was drawing a parallel between Jesus and Moses in the Old Testament. The gospel's massacre of the children was based on the Old Testament story of the pharaoh killing all the first born sons of the Israelites in Egypt but is set in a different context and concerns Jesus, not Moses and the Hebrews.
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