The Birth of Jesus Announced to Joseph

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And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,

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and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

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And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten is of the Holy Spirit,

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and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

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And all this hath come to pass, that it may be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

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`Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted `With us he is God.'

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And Joseph, having risen from the sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord directed him, and received his wife,

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and did not know her till she brought forth her son--the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.

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