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Meanwhile, the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen; it had been just as they had been told.
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On the eighth day, when it was time for his b'rit-milah, he was given the name Yeshua, which is what the angel had called him before his conception.
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When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim to present him to ADONAI
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(as it is written in the Torah of ADONAI, "Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to ADONAI")
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and also to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons,h as required by the Torah of ADONAI.
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There was in Yerushalayim a man named Shim`on. This man was a tzaddik, he was devout, he waited eagerly for God to comfort Isra'el, and the Ruach HaKodesh was upon him.
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It had been revealed to him by the Ruach HaKodesh that he would not die before he had seen the Messiah of ADONAI.
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Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,
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Shim`on took him in his arms, made a b'rakhah to God, and said,
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"Now, ADONAI, according to your word, your servant is at peace as you let him go;
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for I have seen with my own eyes your yeshu`ah,