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The well-known bird, often associated with the turtle dove, as being used by the poor in various sacrifices. A pair of these birds were offered when the Lord was presented in the temple. Luke 2: 24. Pigeons were so numerous in Palestine that the poor were enabled easily to obtain a pair for any needed sacrifice. Gen. 15: 9; Lev. 1: 14; Lev. 5: 7, 11; Lev. 12: 6, 8; Lev. 14: 22, 30; Lev. 15: 14, 29;
Num. 6: 10.