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And all those to whose ears it came were full of wonder at the things said by the keepers of the sheep.
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But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.
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Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.
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And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.
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And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord
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(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),
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And to make an offering, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord, of two doves or other young birds.
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And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.
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And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.
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And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,
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Then he took him in his arms and gave praise to God and said,