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Chinese NCV (Simplified)
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又 要 照 主 的 律 法 上 所 说 ， 或 用 一 对 班 鸠 ， 或 用 两 只 雏 鸽 献 祭 。
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
A pair: Leviticus 12:2, Leviticus 12:6-8, 2 Corinthians 8:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 15:9 - General Leviticus 1:14 - of fowls Leviticus 5:7 - two turtledoves Leviticus 12:8 - she be not able to bring a lamb Leviticus 14:30 - General Psalms 84:7 - strength to strength Matthew 21:12 - doves
Cross-References
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.
God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day, because on that day he rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,
but a mist would rise up from the earth and water all the ground.
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living person.
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
A river flowed through Eden and watered the garden. From there the river branched out to become four rivers.
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And to offer a sacrifice,.... That is, when the time of purification came, the parents of our Lord brought him from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, to present him in the temple to the Lord as his, and to redeem him; and not only so, but to offer the sacrifice required of child-bed women:
according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, Leviticus 12:8
a pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons: if the person was able, she was to bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering; and a young pigeon, or a turtle dove, for a sin offering; but in case of poverty, then the above sufficed, and one of them was for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering; which shows not only that the virgin offered for herself a sin offering, being ceremonially unclean, but also her mean estate and poverty, in that she offered the offering of the poorer sort; see Leviticus 12:6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And to offer a sacrifice ... - Those who were able on such an occasion were required to offer a lamb for a burnt-offering, and a pigeon or a turtle-dove for a sin-offering. If not able to bring a “lamb,” then they were permitted to bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, Leviticus 12:6, Leviticus 12:8.
Turtle-doves - Doves distinguished for having a plaintive and tender voice. By Mary’s making this offering she showed her poverty; and our Saviour, by coming in a state of poverty, has shown that it is not dishonorable to be poor. No station is dishonorable where “God” places us. He knows what is best for us, and he often makes a state of poverty an occasion of the highest blessings. If “with” poverty he grants us, as is often the case, peace, contentment, and religion, it is worth far more than all the jewels of Golconda or the gold of Mexico. If it be asked why, since the Saviour was pure from any moral defilement in his conception and birth, it was necessary to offer such a sacrifice: why was it necessary that he should be circumcised, since he had no sin, it may be answered:
- That it was proper to fulfil all righteousness, and to show obedience to the law, Matthew 3:15.
- It was necessary for the future usefulness of Christ. Unless he had been circumcised, he could not have been admitted to any synagogue or to the temple. He would have had no access to the people, and could not have been regarded as the Messiah.
Both he and Mary, therefore, yielded obedience to the laws of the land, and thus set us an example that we should walk in their steps. Compare the notes at Matthew 3:15.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 2:24. And to offer a sacrifice — Neither mother nor child was considered as in the Lord's covenant, or under the Divine protection, till these ceremonies, prescribed by the law, had been performed.
A pair of turtle doves, c.] One was for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: see Leviticus 12:8. The rich were required to bring a lamb, but the poor and middling classes were required to bring either two turtle doves, or two pigeons. This is a proof that the holy family were not in affluence. Jesus sanctified the state of poverty, which is the general state of man, by passing through it. Therefore the poor have the Gospel preached unto them and the poor are they who principally receive it.
Though neither Mary nor her son needed any of these purifications, for she was immaculate, and He was the Holy One, yet, had she not gone through the days of purification according to the law, she could not have appeared in the public worship of the Most High, and would have been considered as an apostate from the faith of the Israel of God; and had not He been circumcised and publicly presented in the temple, he could not have been permitted to enter either synagogue or temple, and no Jew would have heard him preach, or had any intercourse or connection with him. These reasons are sufficient to account for the purification of the holy virgin, and for the circumcision of the most holy Jesus.
