The Nativity Scene in Luke 2

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The word trough in Hebrew and Fatne and Greek can refer to a trough for feeding or for watering. So if there's animals in a manger present, what must it be? It must be a stable. But stable doesn't appear in Luke 2. There's no stable there. Nor are any animals mentioned. I don't think there were seven cows and a few dogs and ox and lamb keeping time. That's the very simple realistic nativity scene. One young couple with a newborn child laid in a stone major in a very simply furnished grotto or cave lit by dim oil lamps on a starry December night in Bethlehem.

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