Luke 1:10
Good News Translation
while the crowd of people outside prayed during the hour when the incense was burned.

New Revised Standard Version
Now at the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

Contemporary English Version
while the people stood outside praying.

New American Bible
Then, when the whole assembly of the people was praying outside at the hour of the incense offering,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the hour of incense.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the hour of incense.

Leviticus 16:17 Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goeth into the sanctuary, to pray for himself and his house, and for the whole congregation of Israel, until he come out.

Hebrews 4:14 Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.

Hebrews 9:24 For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne of God.

Context
Gabriel Foretells John's Birth
9According to the custom of the priestly office, it was his lot to offer incense, going into the temple of the Lord. 10And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the hour of incense. 11And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.…
Cross References
Leviticus 16:17
Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goeth into the sanctuary, to pray for himself and his house, and for the whole congregation of Israel, until he come out.

Numbers 7:50
A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:

Psalm 141:2
Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

Ezekiel 46:3
And the people of the land shall adore at the door of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths, and on the new moons.

Luke 1:9
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