And they did not have[a] a child, because Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced in years.[b]

And it happened that while[c] he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood he was chosen by lot to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:7 Literally “there was not to them”
  2. Luke 1:7 Literally “in their days”
  3. Luke 1:8 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal infinitive (“was serving as priest”)