“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
―
On the eighth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
Eight Maids a Milking
Seven Swans a Swimming
Six Geese a Laying
Five Golden Rings
Four Calling Birds
Three French Hens
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Today is the dedication (naming) of Jesus in the Temple.
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| "Simeon and Anna" by Jan van‘t Hoff |
Luke 2:22-24 (1599 Geneva Bible) - And when the days of her purification, after the Law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord, (As it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every man child that first openeth the womb, shall be called holy to the Lord) And to give an oblation, as it is commanded in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
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