Numbers 6:22-27

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The Priestly Blessing

²²Then the Lord said to Moses, ²³“Tell Aaron and his sons to bless the people of Israel with this special blessing:

²⁴‘May the Lord bless you
    and protect you.
²⁵May the Lord smile on you
    and be gracious to you.
²⁶May the Lord show you his favor
    and give you his peace.’

²⁷Whenever Aaron and his sons bless the people of Israel in my name, I myself will bless them.”

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Psalm 8

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Psalm 8

For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.^[a]

¹O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
    Your glory is higher than the heavens.
²You have taught children and infants
    to tell of your strength,^[b]
silencing your enemies
    and all who oppose you.

³When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
    the moon and the stars you set in place—
⁴what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    human beings that you should care for them?^[c]
⁵Yet you made them only a little lower than God^[d]
    and crowned them^[e] with glory and honor.
⁶You gave them charge of everything you made,
    putting all things under their authority—
⁷the flocks and the herds
    and all the wild animals,
⁸the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
    and everything that swims the ocean currents.

⁹O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

Notas al pie

8:Title Hebrew according to the gittith.
8:2 Greek version reads to give you praise. Compare Matt 21:16.
8:4 Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him?
8:5a Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim.
8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.

Galatians 4:4-7

New Living Translation

⁴But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. ⁵God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.^[a] ⁶And because we^[b] are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”^[c] ⁷Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child.^[d] And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.

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Notas al pie

4:5 Greek sons; also in 4:6.
4:6a Greek you.
4:6b Abba is an Aramaic term for “father.”
4:7 Greek son; also in 4:7b.

Luke 2:15-21

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¹⁵When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

¹⁶They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. ¹⁷After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. ¹⁸All who heard the shepherds’ story were astonished, ¹⁹but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. ²⁰The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.