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And the shepherdes retourned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene evyn as it was told vnto them.
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And when ye eyght daye was come yt the chylde shuld be circucised his name was called Iesus which was named of the angell before he was conceaved in the wombe.
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And when the tyme of their purificacio (after the lawe of Moyses) was come they brought him to Hierusalem to present hym to ye Lorde
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(as yt is written in the lawe of the Lorde: every man that fyrst openeth the matrix shalbe called holy to the Lorde)
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and to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves or two yonge pigions.
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And beholde ther was a ma in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same ma was iuste and feared God and longed for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him.
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And an answer was geven him of the holy goost that he shulde not se deethe before he had sene the lordes Christ.
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And he came by inspiracion into the temple. And when the father and mother brought in the chylde Iesus to do for him after the custome of the lawe