Genesis 15:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then the LORD told him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon.”

Cross References

Genesis 15:10

Abram obeyed the LORD. Then he cut the animals in half and laid the two halves of each animal opposite each other on the ground. But he did not cut the doves and pigeons in half.

Genesis 15:8

Abram asked, “LORD God, how can I know the land will be mine?”

Genesis 22:13

Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.

Psalm 50:5

“Call my followers together! They offered me a sacrifice, and we made an agreement.”

Song of Solomon 2:12

flowers cover the earth, it's time to sing. The cooing of doves is heard in our land.

Isaiah 15:5

I pity Moab! Its people are running to Zoar and to Eglath-Shelishiyah. They cry on their way up to the town of Luhith; on the road to Horonaim they tell of disasters.

Leviticus 1:10

If you sacrifice a ram or a goat, it must not have anything wrong with it.

Leviticus 1:14

If you offer a bird for this kind of sacrifice, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

Leviticus 12:6

When the mother has completed her time of cleansing, she must come to the front of the sacred tent and bring to the priest a year-old lamb as a sacrifice to please me and a dove or a pigeon as a sacrifice for sin.

Leviticus 12:8

If she cannot afford a lamb, she can offer two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice to please me and the other as a sacrifice for sin.

Leviticus 14:22

Depending on what you can afford, you must also offer either two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me.

Leviticus 3:1

When you offer sacrifices to ask my blessing, you may offer either a bull or a cow, but there must be nothing wrong with the animal.

Leviticus 3:6

Instead of a bull or a cow, you may offer any sheep or goat that has nothing wrong with it.

Leviticus 9:2

Then he said to Aaron: Find a young bull and a ram that have nothing wrong with them. Offer the bull to the LORD as a sacrifice for sin and the ram as a sacrifice to please him.

Leviticus 9:4

Then the people must offer a bull and a ram as a sacrifice to ask the LORD's blessing and also a grain sacrifice mixed with oil. Do this, because the LORD will appear to you today.

Luke 2:24

The Law of the Lord also says that parents have to offer a sacrifice, giving at least a pair of doves or two young pigeons. So that is what Mary and Joseph did.