Luke 1:59 meaning and explanation
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
Luke 1:59, Berean Standard Bible
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Circumcision on the eighth day was commanded in the law of Moses and marked a son's entry into the covenant people. Naming a child at that same ceremony was customary, and the relatives who gathered assumed the boy would carry his father's name, Zechariah, as families often did.
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