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Leviticus 12:6Lev.12.6

And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Lorsque les jours de sa purification seront accomplis, pour un fils ou pour une fille, elle apportera au sacrificateur, à l'entrée de la tente d'assignation, un agneau d'un an pour l'holocauste, et un jeune pigeon ou une tourterelle pour le sacrifice d'expiation.

KJV

And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    tion were expired," a sacrifice was to be offered either "for a son or for a daughter," as laid down Lev. 12:6. And this sacrifice was for the expiation of the sin in which the child was conceived and born; and also for a certain consecration of the child, because it was then pre…

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    jected His Son to the enemy's law, which He Himself had not given." Reply to Objection 4: The law of Lev. 12:6 , 8 "commanded those who could, to offer, for a son or a daughter, a lamb and also a turtle dove or a pigeon: but those who were unable to offer a lamb were commanded to…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    5B] punimus. Et ut darent, inquit, hostiam. Hostia haec pauperum erat; nam in lege praecipiebatur (Levit. XII, 6-8) , ut parentes pro puero agnum offerrent immaculatum, et turturem sive pullum columbae. Si vero manus illorum agnum invenire non posset, offerrent duos turtures, v…

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