orthjbc - Luke:2:1-24

orthjbc@Luke:2:1 @ 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.

orthjbc@Luke:2:2 @ This mifkad (note:)census(:note) was before that taken while Quirinius was governor in Syria.

orthjbc@Luke:2:3 @ And everyone was travellng to register, each to his own shtetl.

orthjbc@Luke:2:4 @ 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.

orthjbc@Luke:2:5 @ And Yosef went up to register with Miryam, who had been given to him in erusin (note:)betrothal(:note) and who was "with child."

orthjbc@Luke:2:6 @ And it came about, while they were there, the yamim were fulfilled for Miryam to give birth.

orthjbc@Luke:2:7 @ 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

orthjbc@Luke:2:8 @ And ro'im were in the same region, living in the open outside, and keeping shomer over their eder (note:)flock(:note) balailah.

orthjbc@Luke:2:9 @ And a malach Hashem suddenly stood before them, and the kavod Hashem shone around them; and they were afraid with a yir'ah gedolah.

orthjbc@Luke:2:10 @ 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;

orthjbc@Luke:2:11 @ "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]

orthjbc@Luke:2:12 @ "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]

orthjbc@Luke:2:13 @ And suddenly there was with the malach a multitude of the Tz'va HaShomayim praising Hashem, and saying,

orthjbc@Luke:2:14 @ "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]

orthjbc@Luke:2:15 @ 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."

orthjbc@Luke:2:16 @ And they came in haste and found both Miryam and Yosef and the olal lying in the evus.

orthjbc@Luke:2:17 @ And when they saw this, they made known the dvar concerning this yeled which had been told them.

orthjbc@Luke:2:18 @ And all who heard it were amazed about the things which were told them by the ro'im.

orthjbc@Luke:2:19 @ But Miryam was treasuring up all these things, pondering them in her lev (note:)heart(:note).

orthjbc@Luke:2:20 @ 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

orthjbc@Luke:2:21 @ 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

orthjbc@Luke:2:22 @ 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]

orthjbc@Luke:2:23 @ (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]

orthjbc@Luke:2:24 @ 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]