Leviticus 12:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Genesis 15:9

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.”

Leviticus 12:2

to say to the community of Israel: If a woman gives birth to a son, she is unclean for seven days, just as she is during her monthly period.

Leviticus 12:5

Any woman who gives birth to a daughter is unclean for two weeks, just as she is during her period. And she won't be completely clean for another sixty-six days.

Leviticus 12:7

After the priest offers the sacrifices to me, the mother will become completely clean from her loss of blood, whether her child is a boy or a girl.

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 15:14

On the eighth day he must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of my sacred tent and give them to a priest.

Leviticus 15:29

On the eighth day, she must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of my sacred tent and give them to a priest.

Numbers 6:10

Then on the next day, bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the sacred tent.

Luke 2:22

The time came for Mary and Joseph to do what the Law of Moses says a mother is supposed to do after her baby is born. They took Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem and presented him to the Lord,

John 1:29

The next day, John saw Jesus coming towards him and said: Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God.

Hebrews 7:26

Jesus is the high priest we need. He is holy and innocent and faultless, and not at all like us sinners. Jesus is honoured above all beings in heaven,