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Luke 1:53-62 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

53. He has filled the hungry with good things.He has sent the rich away empty.

54. He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,

55. as he spoke to our fathers,to Abraham and his offspring forever.”

56. Miriam stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

57. Now the time that Elisheva should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.

58. Her neighbours and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

59. On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zechariah, after the name of his father.

60. His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called Yochanan.”

61. They said to her, “There is no one amongst your relatives who is called by this name.”

62. They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.

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