Leviticus 1:12-14

Expanded Bible

¹² The person must cut the animal into pieces, and the priest must ·lay [arrange] them, with the head and ·fat [suet], on the wood that is on the fire of the altar. ¹³ The person must wash the animal’s inner organs and legs with water, and then the priest must ·burn all its parts [^Lturn it into smoke] on the altar. It is a whole burnt offering, an offering made by fire, and its smell is pleasing to the Lord.

¹⁴ “‘If the ·whole burnt offering [offering; gift] for the Lord is a bird [^Cpresumably because the worshiper could not afford an animal from the herd or flock], it must be a dove or a young pigeon.