Luke 2:24. According, etc. The offering was, according to Leviticus 12:6: ‘a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering.' In the case of poverty: A pair of turtle - doves, or two young pigeons (Leviticus 12:8). Joseph and Mary were not rich, but extreme poverty is not to be inferred from this offering. If they, while sojourners in Bethlehem, had also to pay five shekels at this time, there would be a sufficient reason for their availing themselves of this provision of the law for those who were not rich. ‘Mary cannot bring a lamb for an offering: she brings something better, even the true Lamb of God, into the temple.' (Van Oosterzee.)

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