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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

2:7 swaddling clothes. In New Testament times, newborn babies were wrapped in a long, narrow band of cloth.

2:7 in a manger. Many years later, that same body would be “wrapped…in linen, and laid in a sepulchre” (Luke 23:53).

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