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23 When his time of service as a priest was finished, he went home.

24 Later, Zechariah’s wife, Elizabeth, became pregnant. She did not go out of her house for five months. Elizabeth said, 25 “Look what the Lord has done for me! My people were ashamed[a] of me, but now the Lord has taken away that shame.”

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  1. 1:25 ashamed The Jews thought it was a disgrace for women not to have children.

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