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2:1  Around this time, Emperor Augustus issued an order for a census to be taken throughout the Empire.
2:2  This registration, the first of its kind, took place when Quirinius was governing in Syria.
2:3  Everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.
2:4  So Yosef, because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret in the Galil to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem, in Y’hudah,
2:5  to be registered, with Miryam, to whom he was engaged, and who was pregnant.
2:6  While they were there, the time came for her to give birth;
2:7  and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.
2:8  In the countryside nearby were some shepherds spending the night in the fields, guarding their flocks,
2:9  when an angel of Adonai appeared to them, and the Sh’khinah of Adonai shone around them. They were terrified;
2:10  but the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, because I am here announcing to you Good News that will bring great joy to all the people.
2:11  This very day, in the town of David, there was born for you a Deliverer who is the Messiah, the Lord.
2:12  Here is how you will know: you will find a baby wrapped in cloth and lying in a feeding trough.”
2:13  Suddenly, along with the angel was a vast army from heaven praising God:
2:14  “In the highest heaven, glory to God! And on earth, peace among people of good will!”
2:15  No sooner had the angels left them and gone back into heaven than the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go over to Beit-Lechem and see this thing that has happened, that Adonai has told us about.”
2:16  Hurrying off, they came and found Miryam and Yosef, and the baby lying in the feeding trough.
2:17  Upon seeing this, they made known what they had been told about this child;
2:18  and all who heard were amazed by what the shepherds said to them.
2:19  Miryam treasured all these things and kept mulling them over in her heart.
2:20  Meanwhile, the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen; it had been just as they had been told.
2:21  On the eighth day, when it was time for his b’rit-milah, he was given the name Yeshua, which is what the angel had called him before his conception.
2:22  When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim to present him to Adonai
2:23  (as it is written in the Torah of Adonai, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to Adonai”)
2:24  and also to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons, as required by the Torah of Adonai.
2:25  There was in Yerushalayim a man named Shim‘on. This man was a tzaddik, he was devout, he waited eagerly for God to comfort Isra’el, and the Ruach HaKodesh was upon him.
2:26  It had been revealed to him by the Ruach HaKodesh that he would not die before he had seen the Messiah of Adonai.
2:27  Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,
2:28  Shim‘on took him in his arms, made a b’rakhah to God, and said,
2:29  “Now, Adonai, according to your word, your servant is at peace as you let him go;
2:30  for I have seen with my own eyes your yeshu‘ah,
2:31  which you prepared in the presence of all peoples —
2:32  a light that will bring revelation to the Goyim and glory to your people Isra’el.”
2:33  Yeshua’s father and mother were marvelling at the things Shim‘on was saying about him.
2:34  Shim‘on blessed them and said to the child’s mother, Miryam, “This child will cause many in Isra’el to fall and to rise, he will become a sign whom people will speak against;
2:35  moreover, a sword will pierce your own heart too. All this will happen in order to reveal many people’s inmost thoughts.”
2:36  There was also a prophet named Hannah Bat-P’nu’el, of the tribe of Asher. She was a very old woman — she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage
2:37  and had remained a widow ever since; now she was eighty-four. She never left the Temple grounds but worshipped there night and day, fasting and praying.
2:38  She came by at that moment and began thanking God and speaking about the child to everyone who was waiting for Yerushalayim to be liberated.
2:39  When Yosef and Miryam had finished doing everything required by the Torah of Adonai, they returned to the Galil, to their town Natzeret.
2:40  The child grew and became strong and filled with wisdom — God’s favor was upon him.
2:41  Every year Yeshua’s parents went to Yerushalayim for the festival of Pesach.
2:42  When he was twelve years old, they went up for the festival, as custom required.
2:43  But after the festival was over, when his parents returned, Yeshua remained in Yerushalayim. They didn’t realize this;
2:44  supposing that he was somewhere in the caravan, they spent a whole day on the road before they began searching for him among their relatives and friends.
2:45  Failing to find him, they returned to Yerushalayim to look for him.
2:46  On the third day they found him — he was sitting in the Temple court among the rabbis, not only listening to them but questioning what they said;
2:47  and everyone who heard him was astonished at his insight and his responses.
2:48  When his parents saw him, they were shocked; and his mother said to him, “Son! Why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been terribly worried looking for you!”
2:49  He said to them, “Why did you have to look for me? Didn’t you know that I had to be concerning myself with my Father’s affairs?”
2:50  But they didn’t understand what he meant.
2:51  So he went with them to Natzeret and was obedient to them. But his mother stored up all these things in her heart.
2:52  And Yeshua grew both in wisdom and in stature, gaining favor both with other people and with God.