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When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son.

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When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son.

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Now Elizabeth's full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son.

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Now it was time for Elizabeth's baby to be born, and it was a boy.

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Her neighbors and relatives, seeing that God had overwhelmed her with mercy, celebrated with her.

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Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.

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When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her.

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The word spread quickly to her neighbors and relatives that the Lord had been very kind to her, and everyone rejoiced with her.

Luke.1.59

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father.

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On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,

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So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias.

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When the baby was eight days old, all the relatives and friends came for the circumcision ceremony. They wanted to name him Zechariah, after his father.

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But his mother intervened: "No. He is to be called John."

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but his mother spoke up and said, "No! He is to be called John."

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His mother answered and said, "No; he shall be called John."

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But Elizabeth said, "No! His name is John!"

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"But," they said, "no one in your family is named that."

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They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who has that name."

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But they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

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"What?" they exclaimed. "There is no one in all your family by that name."

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They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named.

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Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.

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So they made signs to his father--what he would have him called.

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So they asked the baby's father, communicating to him by making gestures.

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Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John." That took everyone by surprise.

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He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone's astonishment he wrote, "His name is John."

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And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, "His name is John." So they all marveled.

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He motioned for a writing tablet, and to everyone's surprise he wrote, "His name is John!"

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Surprise followed surprise--Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God!

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Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising God.

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Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God.

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Instantly Zechariah could speak again, and he began praising God.

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A deep, reverential fear settled over the neighborhood, and in all that Judean hill country people talked about nothing else.

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The neighbors were all filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things.

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Then fear came on all who dwelt around them; and all these sayings were discussed throughout all the hill country of Judea.

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Wonder fell upon the whole neighborhood, and the news of what had happened spread throughout the Judean hills.

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Everyone who heard about it took it to heart, wondering, "What will become of this child? Clearly, God has his hand in this."

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Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, "What then is this child going to be?" For the Lord's hand was with him.

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And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, "What kind of child will this be?" And the hand of the Lord was with him.

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Everyone who heard about it reflected on these events and asked, "I wonder what this child will turn out to be? For the hand of the Lord is surely upon him in a special way."

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Then Zachariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied,

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His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

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Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

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Then his father, Zechariah, was filled with the Holy Spirit and gave this prophecy:

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Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he came and set his people free.

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"Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people.

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"Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people,

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"Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited his people and redeemed them.

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He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives, and in the very house of David his servant,

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He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

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And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David,

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He has sent us a mighty Savior from the royal line of his servant David,

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Just as he promised long ago through the preaching of his holy prophets:

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(as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),

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As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began,

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just as he promised through his holy prophets long ago.

Luke.1.71

Deliverance from our enemies and every hateful hand;

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salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us--

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That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us,

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Now we will be saved from our enemies and from all who hate us.

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Mercy to our fathers, as he remembers to do what he said he'd do,

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to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

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To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant,

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He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,

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What he swore to our father Abraham--

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the oath he swore to our father Abraham:

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The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:

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the covenant he gave to our ancestor Abraham.

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a clean rescue from the enemy camp, So we can worship him without a care in the world,

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to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear

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To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,

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We have been rescued from our enemies, so we can serve God without fear,

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made holy before him as long as we live.

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in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

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In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

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in holiness and righteousness forever.

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And you, my child, "Prophet of the Highest," will go ahead of the Master to prepare his ways,

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And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,

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"And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

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"And you, my little son, will be called the prophet of the Most High, because you will prepare the way for the Lord.

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Present the offer of salvation to his people, the forgiveness of their sins.

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to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

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To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,

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You will tell his people how to find salvation through forgiveness of their sins.

Luke.1.78

Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us,

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because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven

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Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

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Because of God's tender mercy, the light from heaven is about to break upon us,

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Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace.

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to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace."

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To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace."

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to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace."

Luke.1.80

The child grew up, healthy and spirited. He lived out in the desert until the day he made his prophetic debut in Israel.

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And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.

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So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

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John grew up and became strong in spirit. Then he lived out in the wilderness until he began his public ministry to Israel.