Bible Verses About the Flight Into Egypt

And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

An angel, a dream, and an instruction to flee. The holy family left in the night with what they could carry.

When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

Seventeen words, and the whole journey is in them: by night, into Egypt.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

No room in the inn. The manger is so familiar that it is easy to forget it means there was nowhere else.

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Foxes have holes and birds have nests. The Son of man, by his own account, had neither.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The reason given for loving the stranger is memory: you were strangers once, in Egypt.