Reference: Turtle
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TURTLE, ???, ??????, Ge 15:9; Le 1:14; 5:7,11; 12:6,8; 14:22,30; 15:14,29; Nu 6:10; Ps 74:19; Song 2:12; Jer 8:7; ??????, Lu 2:24. We have the authority of the Septuagint, the Targum, and of all the ancient interpreters, for understanding this of the turtle. Indeed, it is one of those evident instances in which the name of the bird is by onomatopaeia formed from its note or cry. The turtle is mentioned among migratory birds by Jer 8:7, and in this sense differs from the rest of its family, which are all stationary. The fact to which the prophet alludes is attested by Aristotle in these words: "The pigeon and the dove are always present, but the turtle only in summer; that bird is not seen in winter." And in another part of his work, he asserts that the dove remains, while the turtle migrates. Varro, and other ancient writers, make the like statement. Thus Solomon, Song 2:12, mentions the return of this bird as one of the indications of spring: "The voice of the turtle is heard in the land." See DOVE.
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And he said to him, "Take for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon."
" 'But if his offering for Yahweh is a burnt offering from the birds, [then] he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from {the young doves}.
" 'If {he cannot afford a sheep}, he shall bring [as] his guilt offering [for] what he sinned two turtledoves or two {young doves} for Yahweh, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.
" 'But if {he cannot afford} two turtledoves or two {young doves}, then, because he has sinned, he shall bring [as] his offering a tenth of an ephah [of] finely milled flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it, nor should he put frankincense on it, because it [is] a sin offering.
And at the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing, [whether] for a son or for a daughter, she must bring to the priest at the tent of assembly's entrance a {yearling} male lamb as a burnt offering and {young dove} or a turtledove as a sin offering.
And if {she cannot afford} a sheep, then she shall take two turtledoves or two {young doves}--one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering--and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that she shall be clean.'"
and two turtledoves or two {young doves} that {he can afford}, and one shall be a sin offering and the {other} a burnt offering.
And he shall {sacrifice} one of the turtledoves or the {young doves} that {he can afford},
Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two {young doves}, and he shall come {before} Yahweh at [the] tent of assembly's entrance, and he shall give them to the priest.
And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two {young doves}, and she shall bring them to the priest at [the] tent of assembly's entrance.
On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two {young pigeons} to the priest by the doorway of the tent of assembly,
Do not give to beasts the life of your dove; do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones.
The blossoms {appear} {in the land}; {the time of singing has arrived}; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The blossoms {appear} {in the land}; {the time of singing has arrived}; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.
Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.
and to offer a sacrifice according to what was stated in the law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons."