And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all wondered.
but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.”
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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