Luke:2:1-24

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* And it came about at that time that a dvar malchut was sent out from Caesar Augustus to register everyone in the entire Roman Empire . * This mifkad (note :)census (:note ) was before that taken while Quirinius was governor in Syria . * And everyone was travellng to register , each to his own shtetl . * Now Yosef also went up from the Galil , from the shtetl of Natzeret , to Yehudah , to the Ir Dovid , which is called Beit-Lechem , because he was of the mishpochah and beis of Dovid . * And Yosef went up to register with Miryam , who had been given to him in erusin (note :)betrothal (:note ) and who was "with child ." * And it came about , while they were there , the yamim were fulfilled for Miryam to give birth . * And she bore her ben , her Bechor ; and she wrapped him in cloths , and laid him in an evus (note :)animal feeding trough (:note ), because for them there was not a place in the malon inn . THE MALACH AND THE RO 'IM SHEPHERDSLK strkjv @2:8-20 * And ro 'im were in the same region , living in the open outside , and keeping shomer over their eder (note :)flock (:note ) balailah . * And a malach Hashem suddenly stood before them , and the kavod Hashem shone around them ; and they were afraid with a yir 'ah gedolah . * And the malach said to them , "Do not have pachad ; for -- hinei --I announce Besuras HaGeulah to you of great simcha which will be for kol Am Berit ; * "because hayom , in the Ir Dovid , has been born to you a Moshi 'a (note :)Savior (:note ), who is Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach HaAdon . [Yeshayah strkjv @9:56 ] * "And this will be HaOt [The Sign ] to you : you will find an olal (note :)infant (:note ) wrapped in cloths and lying in an evus ." [Shmuel Alef strkjv @2:34 ; Melachim Bais strkjv @19:29 ; Tehillim strkjv @86:17 ; Yeshayah strkjv @7:14 ] * And suddenly there was with the malach a multitude of the Tz 'va HaShomayim praising Hashem , and saying , * "Kavod to Hashem bamarom ; And on ha 'aretz shalom among bnei Adam ratzon ." [Yeshayah strkjv @9:6 ; strkjv @52:7 ; strkjv @53:5 ; Michoh strkjv @5:5 ] * And it came about , when the malachim departed from them to Shomayim , the ro 'im were saying to one another , "Let us go now up to Bethlehem and let us see this thing that has come about which Hashem has made known to us ." * And they came in haste and found both Miryam and Yosef and the olal lying in the evus . * And when they saw this , they made known the dvar concerning this yeled which had been told them . * And all who heard it were amazed about the things which were told them by the ro 'im . * But Miryam was treasuring up all these things , pondering them in her lev (note :)heart (:note ). * And the ro 'im went back , and as they returned , they cried , `Baruch Hashem " as they gave kavod to G-d for all which they had heard and seen , just as it had been foretold to them . THE BRIS MILAH AND NAMING CEREMONY CONFERRING A HEBREW NAME ON REBBE MELECH HAMOSHIACH * And when shemonah yamim were completed for his Bris Milah , his shem was called Yehoshua , the shem by which he was called by the malach , before he was conceived in the womb . [Zecharyah strkjv @6:11-12 ] THE PIDYON-HABEN OF REBBE , MELECH HAMOSHIACH , THE TOHORAH OF MIRYAM , AND THE PRESENTATION IN THE BEIS HAMIKDASH ; MASHMIDIM (note :)DEVOTEES (:note ) IN THE BEIS HAMIKDASH * And when the yamim for their tohorah according to the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu were completed , they brought him up to Yerushalayim to present him to Hashem [Vayikra strkjv @12:2-8 ] * (just as it has been written in the Torat Hashem , "KHOL BECHOR opening the RECHEM KADESH to Hashem " [Shemot strkjv @13:2 ,12 ,15 ; Bamidbar strkjv @3:13 ] * and to offer a korban according to the thing having been said in the Torat Hashem , "SH 'TEI TORIM O SHNEI BENI YONAH (note :)a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons (:note )." [Vayikra strkjv @12:8 ]

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