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Luke 2:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
Luke 2:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 ¶ (A)[a]And when the eight days were accomplished, that they should circumcise the child, his name was then called (B)Jesus, which was named of the Angel, before he was conceived in the womb.
22 (C)[b]And when the days of [c]her purification, after the Law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord,
23 (As it is written in the Law of the Lord, (D)Every man child that first openeth the womb, shall be called holy to the Lord,)
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- Luke 2:21 Christ the head of the Church, made subject to the Law, to deliver us from the curse of the Law, (as the Name of Jesus doth well declare) being circumcised, doth ratify and seal in his own flesh, the circumcision of the fathers.
- Luke 2:22 Christ, upon whom all our sins were laid, being offered to God, according to the Law, doth purify both Mary and us all in himself.
- Luke 2:22 This is meant, for the fulfilling of the Law: for otherwise the virgin was not defiled, nor unclean, by the birth of this child.
Luke 2:21-23
New International Version
Luke 2:21-23
New International Version
21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child,(A) he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.(B)
Jesus Presented in the Temple
22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses,(C) Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”[a]),(D)
Footnotes
- Luke 2:23 Exodus 13:2,12
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