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You appear to have your quotes or something messed up and I can't really follow what you are saying.
But the main thing is when Jesus was born the verse used was the word baby.
βρέφος
brephos a baby
Later the verses state that he was in a house and the word used was child.
παιδίον
paidionChild
He was not a tiny infant when they fled Egypt but a toddler.
I know he was born in an animal shelter (cave, stable) because there was not enough room at the inn, I have read those verses, thankyou all the same.
I also know the 25th is a custom and very unlikely to be the actual date.
I am also not saying when the star appeared because the bible doesn't tell us. I was simply pointing out that it would have taken the magi some months to travel once they did see it.
It wasn't as nativity scenes depict with huddled shepherds and magi together in a stable overlooking a newborn Christ. That is a child’s picture the same way a bobbing rounded ark with giraffe heads poking out the top is.
Reality is that while the shepherds arrived soon after his birth, the magi arrived at a house with a toddler.
A paidon was a small child, and includes infants. Jesus was a paidon when He was presented in the Temple as an infant,
Luke 2:27
καὶ ἦλθεν ἐν τῷ πνεύματι εἰς τὸ ἱερόν καὶ ἐν τῷ εἰσαγαγεῖν τοὺς γονεῖς τὸ παιδίον Ἰησοῦν τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτοὺς κατὰ τὸ εἰθισμένον τοῦ νόμου περὶ αὐτοῦ
See Leviticus 12:1-8 on how the Torah commands what happens after childbirth and the purification necessary.
Jesus was an infant when presented at the Temple, the text calling Him a paidon.
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