Paragraph 1:23–25

1:23a

And when the days of his service were complete: Zechariah continued working in the temple as a priest until he finished his week of work. Some other ways to translate this are:

When his time of service at the Temple was finished (New Century Version)
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When Zechariah’s week of service in the Temple was over (New Living Translation (2004))

1:23b

he returned home: Zechariah and Elizabeth lived outside Jerusalem in the hill country of Judea.

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