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29 Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons[a] and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, 30 and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.[b] So the priest[c] is to make atonement for her before the Lord from her discharge of impurity.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 15:29 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).
  2. Leviticus 15:30 tn Heb “And the priest shall make the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.”
  3. Leviticus 15:30 tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

29 On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons(A) and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 30 The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the Lord for the uncleanness of her discharge.(B)

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