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Ezekiel chapter 45

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When the land is divided to give each tribe a share, one part is to be dedicated to the LORD. It is to be 10 miles long by 8 miles wide. The entire area will be holy.
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In this area there is to be a square plot of land for the Temple, 840 feet on each side, entirely surrounded by an open space 84 feet wide.
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Half of this area, a section 10 miles by 4 miles, is to be measured off; it will contain the Temple, the holiest place of all.
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It will be a holy part of the country, set aside for the priests who serve the LORD in his Temple. It will contain their houses and the section of land for the Temple.
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The other half of the area is to be set aside as the possession of the Levites, who do the work in the Temple. There will be towns there for them to live in.
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Next to the holy area, another section, 10 miles long and 2 miles wide, is to be set aside for a city where any of the people of Israel may live.
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Land is also to be set aside for the ruling prince. From the west boundary of the holy area it will extend west to the Mediterranean Sea; and from the east boundary it will extend to the eastern border of the country, so that its length will be the same as the length of one of the areas allotted to the tribes of Israel.
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This area will be the share the ruling prince will have in the land of Israel, so that he will no longer oppress the people, but will let the rest of the country belong to the tribes of Israel.
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The Sovereign LORD said, "You have sinned too long, you rulers of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression. Do what is right and just. You must never again drive my people off their land. I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you this.
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"Everyone must use honest weights and measures:
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"The ephah for dry measure is to be equal to the bath for liquid measure. The standard is the homer. The resulting measures are as follows: 1 homer = 10 ephahs = 10 baths
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"Your weights are to be as follows: 20 gerahs = 1 shekel 60 shekels = 1 mina
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"This is the basis on which you are to make your offerings: Wheat: 1/60th of your harvest Barley: 1/60th of your harvest Olive oil: 1/100th of the yield of your trees (Measure it by the bath: 10 baths = 1 homer = 1 kor.) Sheep: 1 sheep out of every 200 from the meadows of Israel "You are to bring grain offerings, animals to be burned whole, and animals for fellowship offerings, so that your sins will be forgiven. I, the Sovereign LORD, command it.
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(SEE 45:13)
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(SEE 45:13)
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"All the people of the land must take these offerings to the ruling prince of Israel.
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It will be his duty to provide the animals to be burned whole, the grain offerings, and the wine offerings for the whole nation of Israel at the New Moon Festivals, the Sabbaths, and the other festivals. He is to provide the sin offerings, the grain offerings, the offerings to be burned whole, and the fellowship offerings, to take away the sins of the people of Israel."
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The Sovereign LORD said, "On the first day of the first month you are to sacrifice a bull without any defects and purify the Temple.
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The priest will take some of the blood of this sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the altar, and on the posts of the gateways to the inner courtyard.
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On the seventh day of the month you are to do the same thing on behalf of anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will keep the Temple holy.
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"On the fourteenth day of the first month you will begin the celebration of the Passover Festival. For seven days everyone will eat bread made without yeast.
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On the first day of the festival the ruling prince must offer a bull as a sacrifice for his sins and for those of all the people.
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On each of the seven days of the festival he is to sacrifice to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without any defects and burn them whole. He is also to sacrifice a male goat each day as a sin offering.
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For each bull and each ram that is sacrificed, there is to be an offering of half a bushel of grain and three quarts of olive oil.
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"For the Festival of Shelters, which begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the prince will offer on each of the seven days the same sacrifice for sin, the same offerings to be burned whole, and the same offerings of grain and olive oil."

Ezekiel chapter 46

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The Sovereign LORD says, "The east gateway to the inner courtyard must be kept closed during the six working days, but it is to be opened on the Sabbath and at the New Moon Festival.
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The ruling prince will go from the outer courtyard into the entrance room of the gateway and stand beside the posts of the gate while the priests burn his sacrifices whole and offer his fellowship offerings. There at the gate he must worship and then go back out. The gate must not be shut until evening.
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Each Sabbath and each New Moon Festival all the people are also to bow down and worship the LORD in front of the gate.
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On the Sabbath the prince is to bring to the LORD, as sacrifices to be burned whole, six lambs and one ram, all without any defects.
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With each ram he is to bring an offering of half a bushel of grain, and with each lamb he is to bring whatever he wants to give. For each half-bushel of grain offering he is to bring three quarts of olive oil.
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At the New Moon Festival he will offer a young bull, six lambs, and a ram, all without any defects.
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With each bull and each ram the offering is to be half a bushel of grain, and with each lamb the offering is to be whatever the prince wants to give. Three quarts of olive oil are to be offered with each half-bushel of grain.
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The prince must leave the entrance room of the gateway and go out by the same way he went in.
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"When the people come to worship the LORD at any festival, those who enter by the north gate are to leave by the south gate after they have worshiped, and those who enter by the south gate are to leave by the north gate. No one may go out by the same way he entered, but must leave by the opposite gate.
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The prince is to come in when the people come, and leave when they leave.
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On the feast days and at the festivals the grain offering will be half a bushel with each bull or ram, and whatever the worshiper wants to give with each lamb. Three quarts of olive oil are to be offered with each half-bushel of grain.
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"When the ruling prince wants to make a voluntary offering to the LORD, either an offering to be burned whole or a fellowship offering, the east gate to the inner courtyard will be opened for him. He is to make the offering in the same way he does on the Sabbath, and the gate is to be closed after he goes back out."
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The LORD says, "Every morning a one-year-old lamb without any defects is to be burned whole as an offering to the LORD. This offering must be made every day.
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Also an offering of five pounds of flour is to be made every morning, along with one quart of olive oil for mixing with the flour. The rules for this offering to the LORD are to be in force forever.
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The lamb, the flour, and the olive oil are to be offered to the LORD every morning forever."
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The Sovereign LORD commands: "If the ruling prince gives any of the land he owns to one of his sons as a present, it will belong to that son as a part of his family property.
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But if the ruling prince gives any of his land to anyone who is in his service, it will become the prince's property again when the Year of Restoration comes. It belongs to him, and only he and his sons can own it permanently.
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The ruling prince must not take any of the people's property away from them. Any land he gives to his sons must be from the land that is assigned to him, so that he will not oppress any of my people by taking their land."
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Then the man took me to the entrance of the rooms facing north near the gate on the south side of the inner courtyard. These are holy rooms for the priests. He pointed out a place on the west side of the rooms
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and said, "This is the place where the priests are to boil the meat offered as sacrifices for sin or as repayment offerings, and to bake the offerings of flour, so that nothing holy is carried to the outer courtyard, where it might harm the people."
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Then he led me to the outer courtyard and showed me that in each of its four corners there was a smaller courtyard, 68 feet long and 48 feet wide.
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(SEE 46:21)
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Each one had a stone wall around it, with fireplaces built against the wall.
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The man told me, "These are the kitchens where the Temple servants are to boil the sacrifices the people offer."

Luke chapter 1

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Dear Theophilus: Many people have done their best to write a report of the things that have taken place among us.
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They wrote what we have been told by those who saw these things from the beginning and who proclaimed the message.
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And so, Your Excellency, because I have carefully studied all these matters from their beginning, I thought it would be good to write an orderly account for you.
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I do this so that you will know the full truth about everything which you have been taught.
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During the time when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife's name was Elizabeth; she also belonged to a priestly family.
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They both lived good lives in God's sight and obeyed fully all the Lord's laws and commands.
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They had no children because Elizabeth could not have any, and she and Zechariah were both very old.
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One day Zechariah was doing his work as a priest in the Temple, taking his turn in the daily service.
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According to the custom followed by the priests, he was chosen by lot to burn incense on the altar. So he went into the Temple of the Lord,
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while the crowd of people outside prayed during the hour when the incense was burned.
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An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar where the incense was burned.
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When Zechariah saw him, he was alarmed and felt afraid.
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But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.
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How glad and happy you will be, and how happy many others will be when he is born!
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John will be great in the Lord's sight. He must not drink any wine or strong drink. From his very birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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and he will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.
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He will go ahead of the Lord, strong and mighty like the prophet Elijah. He will bring fathers and children together again; he will turn disobedient people back to the way of thinking of the righteous; he will get the Lord's people ready for him."
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Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know if this is so? I am an old man, and my wife is old also."
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"I am Gabriel," the angel answered. "I stand in the presence of God, who sent me to speak to you and tell you this good news.
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But you have not believed my message, which will come true at the right time. Because you have not believed, you will be unable to speak; you will remain silent until the day my promise to you comes true."
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In the meantime the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he was spending such a long time in the Temple.
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When he came out, he could not speak to them, and so they knew that he had seen a vision in the Temple. Unable to say a word, he made signs to them with his hands.
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When his period of service in the Temple was over, Zechariah went back home.
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Some time later his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and did not leave the house for five months.
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"Now at last the Lord has helped me," she said. "He has taken away my public disgrace!"
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In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee named Nazareth.
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He had a message for a young woman promised in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was a descendant of King David. Her name was Mary.
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The angel came to her and said, "Peace be with you! The Lord is with you and has greatly blessed you!"
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Mary was deeply troubled by the angel's message, and she wondered what his words meant.
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The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary; God has been gracious to you.
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You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.
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He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High God. The Lord God will make him a king, as his ancestor David was,
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and he will be the king of the descendants of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end!"
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Mary said to the angel, "I am a virgin. How, then, can this be?"
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The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and God's power will rest upon you. For this reason the holy child will be called the Son of God.
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Remember your relative Elizabeth. It is said that she cannot have children, but she herself is now six months pregnant, even though she is very old.
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For there is nothing that God cannot do."
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"I am the Lord's servant," said Mary; "may it happen to me as you have said." And the angel left her.
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Soon afterward Mary got ready and hurried off to a town in the hill country of Judea.
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She went into Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.
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When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby moved within her. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit
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and said in a loud voice, "You are the most blessed of all women, and blessed is the child you will bear!
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Why should this great thing happen to me, that my Lord's mother comes to visit me?
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For as soon as I heard your greeting, the baby within me jumped with gladness.
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How happy you are to believe that the Lord's message to you will come true!"
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Mary said, "My heart praises the Lord;
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my soul is glad because of God my Savior,
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for he has remembered me, his lowly servant! From now on all people will call me happy,
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because of the great things the Mighty God has done for me. His name is holy;
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from one generation to another he shows mercy to those who honor him.
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He has stretched out his mighty arm and scattered the proud with all their plans.
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He has brought down mighty kings from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly.
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He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away with empty hands.
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He has kept the promise he made to our ancestors, and has come to the help of his servant Israel.
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He has remembered to show mercy to Abraham and to all his descendants forever!"
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Mary stayed about three months with Elizabeth and then went back home.
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The time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.
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Her neighbors and relatives heard how wonderfully good the Lord had been to her, and they all rejoiced with her.
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When the baby was a week old, they came to circumcise him, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.
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But his mother said, "No! His name is to be John."
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They said to her, "But you don't have any relative with that name!"
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Then they made signs to his father, asking him what name he would like the boy to have.
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Zechariah asked for a writing pad and wrote, "His name is John." How surprised they all were!
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At that moment Zechariah was able to speak again, and he started praising God.
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The neighbors were all filled with fear, and the news about these things spread through all the hill country of Judea.
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Everyone who heard of it thought about it and asked, "What is this child going to be?" For it was plain that the Lord's power was upon him.
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John's father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he spoke God's message:
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"Let us praise the Lord, the God of Israel! He has come to the help of his people and has set them free.
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He has provided for us a mighty Savior, a descendant of his servant David.
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He promised through his holy prophets long ago
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that he would save us from our enemies, from the power of all those who hate us.
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He said he would show mercy to our ancestors and remember his sacred covenant.
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With a solemn oath to our ancestor Abraham he promised to rescue us from our enemies and allow us to serve him without fear,
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(SEE 1:73)
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so that we might be holy and righteous before him all the days of our life.
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"You, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High God. You will go ahead of the Lord to prepare his road for him,
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to tell his people that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.
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Our God is merciful and tender. He will cause the bright dawn of salvation to rise on us
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and to shine from heaven on all those who live in the dark shadow of death, to guide our steps into the path of peace."
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The child grew and developed in body and spirit. He lived in the desert until the day when he appeared publicly to the people of Israel.

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