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Numbers 6:10
On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God, through Moses, addresses the Israelite community regulating the Nazirite vow. The command occurs immediately after the seventh-day shaving for a defiled Nazirite, directing the next step in the restoration sequence.
The words — הַשְּׁמִינִי (ha-shemini) = the eighth [H8066] fixes the precise day for the offering. תֹרִים (torim) = turtle-doves [H8449] names the avian sacrifice permitted alongside young pigeons.
The thread — The eighth-day bird offering for purification repeats in Leviticus 15:14 and Leviticus 15:29 for post-impurity cleansing. Leviticus 1:14 also allows turtledoves or young pigeons for burnt offerings but does not attach an eighth-day requirement.
Why it lands — The text mandates a timed, non-negotiable sacrificial procedure following ritual defilement. It requires the individual to follow a fixed restoration sequence rather than acting on personal timing or preference.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Cross-references
- Leviticus 1:14 If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
- Leviticus 15:14 On the eighth day he is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
- Leviticus 15:29 On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 5:7 If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 9:1 On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
- Leviticus 12:6 When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.
- Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 14:31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.
- John 2:1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
- Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.