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58 Her neighbors and relatives heard how Adonai had shown her His great mercy, and they began to rejoice with her.

59 Now on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child,[a] and they kept trying to call him by his father’s name, Zechariah. 60 But his mother declared, “No, he will be called John.”

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  1. Luke 1:59 cf. Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3.