¹⁸And Zechariah said to the angel, “By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years!”^e ¹⁹And the angel answered and^* said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news. ²⁰And behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because^f you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”

²¹And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and began to wonder^* when^* he was delayed in the temple. ²²And when he^* came out he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them, and remained unable to speak. ²³And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home.

²⁴Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying, ²⁵“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with me,^* to take away my disgrace among people.”

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Footnotes

eLiterally “in her days”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
fLiterally “in return for which”
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to wonder”)
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal infinitive (“was delayed”)
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came out”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation