Credit: Curtis McCormick
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Comments: Manger Scene. This picture was featured on the front page of the McKeesport Daily News, December 24, 2007.
Credit: Todd Huffman
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Comments: Away in a Manger. A mud-manger.
Credit: Ian Balcombe
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Comments: Wooden troughs Looking like something from a Thomas Hardy novel.
From ISBE: man'-jer (phatne): Properly the place in a stall or stable where the food of cattle is placed (in the Old Testament "crib" (Job 39:9; Proverbs 14:4; Isaiah 1:3)); thus also, apparently, in the narrative of the nativity in Luke 2:7; Luke 2:12; Luke 2:16. In Septuagint, the Greek word, representing different Hebrew words, has also the extended meaning of "stall" (2 Chronicles 32:28; Habakkuk 3:17); thus also in Luke 13:15, where the Revised Version margin has "manger." Old tradition says that Jesus was born in a cave in the neighborhood of Bethlehem; even so, a place for food for cattle may have been cut in the side of the rock.
James Orr
