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The Parents Bring Jesus To The Temple To Redeem Him Before The Lord

22 And when the days of their purification according to the Law of Moses were fulfilled[a], they brought Him up to Jerusalem so as to present Him to the Lord 23 just as it has been written in the Law of the Lord [in Ex 13:2], that “every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”; 24 and that she might give a sacrifice in accordance with the thing having been said in the Law of the Lord [in Lev 12:8]: “a pair of turtledoves or two young ones of pigeons”.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:22 That is, after 33 more days, Lev 12:1-8.

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