The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

22 And when the days of their purification were completed according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him[a] to the Lord 23 (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord”)[b] 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what was stated in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:22 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 2:23 An allusion to Exod 13:2, 12, 15
  3. Luke 2:24 A quotation from Lev 5:11; 12:8