Luke 1:59 - Tree of Life Version

⁵⁹ Now on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they kept trying to call him by his father’s name, Zechariah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁹ 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

⁵⁹ 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)

⁵⁹ 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

⁵⁹ 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

⁵⁹ And it happened that, on the eighth day, they arrived to circumcise the boy, and they called him by his father's name, Zechariah.

Luke 1:59 Cross References

Genesis 17:12

Also your eight-day-olds must be circumcised, every male, throughout your generations, including a house-born slave or a slave bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

Leviticus 12:3

In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is to be circumcised.

Luke 2:21

When eight days had passed for His brit-milah, He was named Yeshua, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

Acts 7:8

“Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. So he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and so Isaac with Jacob, and Jacob with the twelve patriarchs.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel; from the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the Torah, a Pharisee;