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“‘When[a] the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one-year-old lamb[b] for a burnt offering[c] and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering[d] to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 12:6 tn Heb “And when” (so KJV, NASB). Many recent English versions leave the conjunction untranslated.
  2. Leviticus 12:6 tn Heb “a lamb the son of his year”; KJV “a lamb of the first year” (NRSV “in its first year”); NAB “a yearling lamb.”
  3. Leviticus 12:6 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
  4. Leviticus 12:6 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

If she cannot afford a sheep,[a] then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons,[b] one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 12:8 tn Heb “If her hand cannot find the sufficiency of a sheep.” Many English versions render this as “lamb.”
  2. Leviticus 12:8 tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168, with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).
  3. Leviticus 12:8 tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”