A moment in scripture
Luke 1:8
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And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
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The surrounding passage
- Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Luke 1:7
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
- Luke 1:9
According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
- Luke 1:10
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.