Thematic Bible: Prescribed for purification


Thematic Bible



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.'

According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

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.


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.