23. (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),
24. and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.
25. Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
26. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
27. So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,
28. Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,