And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord. And they did not have[a] a child, because Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced in years.[b]

And it happened that while[c] he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:7 Literally “there was not to them”
  2. Luke 1:7 Literally “in their days”
  3. Luke 1:8 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal infinitive (“was serving as priest”)