Leviticus 14:22
Good News Translation
You shall also bring two doves or two pigeons, one for the sin offering and one for the burnt offering.

New Revised Standard Version
also two turtledoves or two pigeons, such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
Depending on what you can afford, you must also offer either two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me.

New American Bible
and two turtledoves or pigeons, which the individual can more easily afford, the one as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.

68:13). The voice of the dove is particularly tender and plaintive, and bears a striking resemblance to the groan of a person in distress; to which the inspired bards frequently allude.

Isaiah 38:14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

Songs 2:14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Jeremiah 48:28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in the highest place.

Context
Cleansing from Skin Diseases
21But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil: 22And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.23And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.…
Cross References
Leviticus 5:7
But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles, or two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,

Leviticus 14:21
But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:

Leviticus 14:24
And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.

Leviticus 15:14
And on the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.

Numbers 6:10
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony.

Leviticus 14:21
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