Discovery BoxLeviticus 12:6 
Context12:6 “‘When 1 the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one year old lamb 2 for a burnt offering 3 and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering 4 to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest.
Leviticus 12:8
Context12:8 If she cannot afford a sheep, 5 then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 6 one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’” 7
1 tn Heb “And when” (so KJV, NASB). Many recent English versions leave the conjunction untranslated.
2 tn Heb “a lamb the son of his year”; KJV “a lamb of the first year” (NRSV “in its first year”); NAB “a yearling lamb.”
3 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
4 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
5 tn Heb “If her hand cannot find the sufficiency of a sheep.” Many English versions render this as “lamb.”
6 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).
7 tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”
