Reference: TURTLE-DOVE
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Or Turtle, the Columba Turtur; a distinct bird from the common dove or pigeon, smaller and differently marked, and having a soft and plaintive note, Isa 59:11; Eze 7:16. It is a bird of passage, Jer 8:7, leaving Palestine for a short trip to the south, and returning early in spring, Song 2:12. It is timid and fond of seclusion, and pines in captivity, Ps 11:1. The law allowed it as a burnt or sin-offering by the poor, Le 1:14; 5:7; Mt 21:22, and in several cases of purification, etc., Le 12:6-8; 14:22; Nu 6:10; Lu 2:24. Before the giving of the law, Abraham offered birds, which he divided the other victims he left the birds entire, Ge 15:9.
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And he said to him, Take a heifer three years old for me, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.
And if his oblation to LORD be a burnt-offering of birds, then he shall offer his oblation of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons.
And if his means is not sufficient for a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass-offering for that by which he has sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to LORD, one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering.
And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, to the door of the tent of meeting, t And he shall offer it before LORD, and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. read more. And if her means are not sufficient for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall
and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get, and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering.
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.
In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain.
The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.
But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.
And all things, as many as ye may ask in prayer, believing, ye will receive.
and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in a law of Lord, a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.