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 (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.
If you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to Jehovah as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin. The other will be a burnt offering.
When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She should bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer them in Jehovah's presence to pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her. Then she will be clean from her flow of blood. These are the instructions for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. read more. If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'
and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.
The eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
([Psalm of David]) I have taken refuge in Jehovah. How can you say to me: Flee to your mountain like a bird?
The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it is far from us.
Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.
Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.
You will receive the things you ask for in prayer when you have faith.
According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.