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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He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
"If his gift to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present his offering from the turtledoves or young pigeons.
"But if he cannot afford an animal from the flock, then he may bring to the Lord two turtledoves or two young pigeons as restitution for his sin-one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
"When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. He will present them before the Lord and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female. read more. But if she doesn't have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean."
and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
I have taken refuge in the Lord. How can you say to me, "Escape to the mountain like a bird!
The blossoms appear in the countryside. The time of singing has come, and the turtledove's cooing is heard in our land.
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.
Even the stork in the sky knows her seasons. The turtledove, swallow, and crane are aware of their migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains like doves of the valley, all of them moaning, each over his own iniquity.
And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
and to offer a sacrifice (according to what is stated in the law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons ).