0 What made Joseph decide to take his family to Galilee instead of Judea?

Put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead. Numbers 5:2

Trivia: The people complained about the lack of food and water during the Exodus, so God sent fiery serpents to bite them.

What made Joseph decide to take his family to Galilee instead of Judea?


God appeared to him in a dream and told him to.

When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee. Matthew 2:22

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