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New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 2
¹⁶ They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger.
¹⁷ After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child.
¹⁸ All who heard the shepherds’ story were astonished,
¹⁹ but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.
²⁰ The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.
²¹ Eight days later, when the baby was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel even before he was conceived.
²² Then it was time for their purification offering, as required by the law of Moses after the birth of a child; so his parents took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.
²³ The law of the Lord says, “If a woman’s first child is a boy, he must be dedicated to the LORD.”
²⁴ So they offered the sacrifice required in the law of the Lord—“either a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”
²⁵ At that time there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon. He was righteous and devout and was eagerly waiting for the Messiah to come and rescue Israel. The Holy Spirit was upon him
²⁶ and had revealed to him that he would not die until he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.