And on the following day he brought his offerings, saying in himself: If the Lord God has been rendered gracious to me, the plate on the priest's forehead will make it manifest to me.
2And Joachim brought his offerings, and observed attentively the priest's plate when he went up to the altar of the Lord, and he saw no sin in himself.
3And Joachim said: Now I know that the Lord has been gracious unto me, and has remitted all my sins.
4And he went down from the temple of the Lord justified, and departed to his own house.
5And her months were fulfilled, and in the ninth month Anna brought forth.
6And she said to the midwife: What have I brought forth? and she said: A girl.
7And said Anna: My soul has been magnified this day.
8And she laid her down. And the days having been fulfilled, Anna was purified, and gave the breast to the child, and called her name Mary.