SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:24
y para dar la ofrenda, conforme a lo que est dicho en la ley del Seor: un par de trtolas, o dos palominos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 2:24
Verse 24. And to offer a sacrifice] Neither mother nor child was considered as in the Lord's covenant, or under the Divine protection, till these ceremonies, prescribed by the law, had been performed. A pair of turtle doves, &c.] One was for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: see Lev. xii. 8. The rich were required to bring a lamb, but the poor and middling classes were required to bring either two turtle doves, or two pigeons. This is a proof that the holy family were not in affluence. Jesus sanctified the state of poverty, which is the general state of man, by passing through it. Therefore the poor have the Gospel preached unto them; and the poor are they who principally receive it.
Though neither Mary nor her son needed any of these purifications, for she was immaculate, and He was the Holy One, yet, had she not gone through the days of purification according to the law, she could not have appeared in the public worship of the Most High, and would have been considered as an apostate from the faith of the Israel of God; and had not He been circumcised and publicly presented in the temple, he could not have been permitted to enter either synagogue or temple, and no Jew would have heard him preach, or had any intercourse or connection with him. These reasons are sufficient to account for the purification of the holy virgin, and for the circumcision of the most holy Jesus.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 24. And to offer a sacrifice , etc.] That is, when the time of purification came, the parents of our Lord brought him from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, to present him in the temple to the Lord as his, and to redeem him; and not only so, but to offer the sacrifice required of child-bed women: according to that which is said in the law of the Lord , ( Leviticus 12:8) a pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons: if the person was able, she was to bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering; and a young pigeon, or a turtle dove, for a sin offering; but in case of poverty, then the above sufficed, and one of them was for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering; which shows not only that the virgin offered for herself a sin offering, being ceremonially unclean, but also her mean estate and poverty, in that she offered the offering of the poorer sort; (see Leviticus 12:6,8).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 21-24 - Our Lord Jesus was not born in sin, and did not need that mortificatio of a corrupt nature, or that renewal unto holiness, which wer signified by circumcision. This ordinance was, in his case, a pledge of his future perfect obedience to the whole law, in the midst of sufferings and temptations, even unto death for us. At the end of fort days, Mary went up to the temple to offer the appointed sacrifices for her purification. Joseph also presented the holy child Jesus, because as a first-born son, he was to be presented to the Lord, and redeeme according to the law. Let us present our children to the Lord who gav them to us, beseeching him to redeem them from sin and death, and make them holy to himself.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ του 3588 T-GSM δουναι 1325 5629 V-2AAN θυσιαν 2378 N-ASF κατα 2596 PREP το 3588 T-ASN ειρημενον 2046 5772 V-RPP-ASN-ATT εν 1722 PREP νομω 3551 N-DSM κυριου 2962 N-GSM ζευγος 2201 N-NSN τρυγονων 5167 N-GPF η 2228 PRT δυο 1417 A-NUI νεοσσους 3502 N-APM περιστερων 4058 N-GPF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
24. A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons. The offering of the poor. While the lamb would probably cost about one dollar and seventy five cents, the doves would cost about sixteen cents. She would not bring the creatures themselves, but would drop the price into one of the thirteen trumpet shaped chests in the Court of the Women. Young pigeons: lit., young ones of pigeons (nossouv peristerwn). Wyc. has culver birds; culver being an old English term for dove. So Spenser:"More light than culver in the falcon's fist."
Robertson's NT Word Studies
2:24 {A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons} (zeugos trugonwn e duo nossous peristerwn). The offspring of the poor, costing about sixteen cents, while a lamb would cost nearly two dollars. The "young of pigeons" is the literal meaning.
