Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.