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Luke 2:20-30

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20 The sheepherders returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. It turned out exactly the way they'd been told!
20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
21 When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived.
21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.
22 Then when the days stipulated by Moses for purification were complete, they took him up to Jerusalem to offer him to God
22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
23 as commanded in God's Law: "Every male who opens the womb shall be a holy offering to God,"
23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord” ),
24 and also to sacrifice the "pair of doves or two young pigeons" prescribed in God's Law.
24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”
25 In Jerusalem at the time, there was a man, Simeon by name, a good man, a man who lived in the prayerful expectancy of help for Israel. And the Holy Spirit was on him.
25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
26 The Holy Spirit had shown him that he would see the Messiah of God before he died.
26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.
27 Led by the Spirit, he entered the Temple. As the parents of the child Jesus brought him in to carry out the rituals of the Law,
27 Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required,
28 Simeon took him into his arms and blessed God:
28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:
29 God, you can now release your servant; release me in peace as you promised.
29 “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace.
30 With my own eyes I've seen your salvation;
30 For my eyes have seen your salvation,
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