Leviticus 12:8

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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 make peace with the Lord for her, and she will be clean.”

Cross References

Leviticus 1:14

“If your offering to the Lord is a bird, you must sacrifice a mourning dove or pigeon.

Leviticus 12:7

The priest will offer them in the Lord’s presence to make peace with the Lord 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.

Leviticus 13:1

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

Leviticus 14:21

“But if the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to make peace with the Lord for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil,

Leviticus 14:22

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.

Leviticus 15:14

On the eighth day he must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and come into the Lord’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. He will give these birds to the priest.

Leviticus 15:15

The priest will sacrifice one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. So in the Lord’s presence, the priest will make peace with the Lord for the man who had a discharge.

Leviticus 15:29

On the eighth day she must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Leviticus 4:26

He will burn all the fat on the altar the same way the fat of the fellowship offering is burned. So the priest will make peace with the Lord for what the leader did wrong, and the leader will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5:11

“But if you cannot afford two mourning doves or two pigeons, then bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it, because it is an offering for sin.

Leviticus 5:7

“Now, if you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring to the Lord two mourning doves or two pigeons as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin, the other a burnt offering.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold pigeons.

2 Corinthians 8:9

You know about the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was rich, yet for your sake he became poor in order to make you rich through his poverty.