9 And behold the angel of the Lord stood by her, and said, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour in the sight of God. 10 Which when she heard, she reasoned with herself what that sort of salutation meant. 11 And the angel said unto her, The Lord is with thee, and thou shalt conceive: 12 To which she replied, What! shall I conceive by the living God and bring forth as all other women do? 13 But the angel returned answer, Not so, O Mary, but the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee; 14 Wherefore that which shall be born of thee shall be holy, and shall be called the Son of the Living God, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. 15 And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age. 16 And this now is the sixth month with her, who was called barren: for nothing is impossible with God. 17 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be unto me according to thy word. 18 And when she had wrought her purple, she carried it to the high-priest, and the high-priest blessed her, saying, Mary, the Lord God hath magnified thy name, and thou shalt be blessed in all the ages of the world. 19 Then Mary, filled with joy, went away to her cousin Elizabeth, and knocked at the door. 20 Which when Elizabeth heard, she ran and opened to her, and blessed her, and said, Whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come unto me? 21 For lo! as soon as the voice of thy salutation reached my ears, that which is in me leaped and blessed thee. 22 But Mary, being ignorant of all those mysterious things which the archangel Gabriel had spoken to her, lifted up her eyes to heaven, and said, Lord! What am I, that all the generations of the earth should call me blessed? 23 But perceiving herself daily to grow big, and being afraid, she went home, and hid herself from the children of Israel; and was fourteen years old when all these things happened. CHAPTER X. 1 Joseph returns from building houses, finds the Virgin grown big, being six months gone with child, 2 is jealous and troubled, 8 reproaches her, 10 she affirms her innocence, 13 he leaves her, 16 determines to dismiss her privately, 17 is warned in a dream that Mary is with child by the Holy Ghost, 20 and glorifies God who had shewn him such favour. AND when her sixth month was come, Joseph returned from his building houses abroad, which was his trade, and entering into the house, found the Virgin grown big: 2 Then smiting upon his face, he said, With what face can I look up to the Lord my God? or, what shall I say concerning this young woman? 3 For I received her a Virgin out of the temple of the Lord my God, and have not preserved her such! 4 Who has thus deceived me? Who has committed this evil in my house, and seducing the Virgin from me, hath defiled her?