Luke 2:22-24

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Jesus Is Presented in the Temple

²²The time came for Mary and Joseph to do the things the Law of Moses taught about being made pure.^[a] They brought Jesus to Jerusalem so that they could present him to the Lord. ²³It is written in the law of the Lord: “When a mother’s first baby is a boy, he shall be called ‘special for the Lord.’”^[b] ²⁴The law of the Lord also says that people must give a sacrifice: “You must sacrifice two doves or two young pigeons.”^[c] So Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem to do this.

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Footnotes

Luke 2:22 pure The Law of Moses said that 40 days after a Jewish woman gave birth to a baby, she must be made ritually clean by a ceremony at the Temple. See Lev. 12:2-8.
Luke 2:23 “When … ‘special for the Lord’” See Ex. 13:2, 12.
Luke 2:24 Quote from Lev. 12:8.