Luke 1:59 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And it occurred that on the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were intending to call him Zachariah after his father, [Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Common English Bible

On the eighth day, it came time to circumcise the child. They wanted to name him Zechariah because that was his father’s name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And it happened that, on the eighth day, they arrived to circumcise the boy, and they called him by his father's name, Zechariah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him by his father's name Zachary.

Luke 1:59 Cross References

Genesis 17:12

Throughout your generations every male among you shall be circumcised when he is eight days old, including the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

Leviticus 12:3

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Luke 2:21

When the eighth day came, it was time to circumcise the child, and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Acts 7:8

Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac did likewise to Jacob and Jacob to the twelve patriarchs.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;