Matthew 1:19-20

The Birth of Jesus Christ

¹⁹ And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling _x to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. ²⁰ But as he considered these things, behold, _y an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 24:1
   When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 2:13
   Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.
   Matthew 2:19
   But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
   Matthew 2:12
   And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
   Matthew 2:22
   But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.