Levitico 1:14

14 Se la sua offerta all’Eterno è un olocausto d’uccelli, offrirà delle tortore o de’ giovani piccioni.

Levitico 1:14 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 1:14

And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be
of fowls
As it might be for the poorer sort, who could not offer a bullock, nor a sheep, or a lamb, ( Leviticus 5:7 ) ( 12:8 ) :

then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young
pigeons;
the Jewish writers all agree, that the turtles should be old, and not young, as the pigeons young, and not old; so the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, Aben Ezra and Gersom ^F12; the latter gives two reasons for it, because then they are the choicest and easiest to be found and taken: no mention is made of their being male or female, either would do, or of their being perfect and unblemished, as in the other burnt offerings; but if any part was wanting, it was not fit for sacrifice, as Maimonides ^F13 observes. These creatures were proper emblems of Christ, and therefore used in sacrifice, whose voice is compared to the turtle's, and his eyes to the eyes of doves, ( Song of Solomon 2:12 ) ( 5:12 ) and who is fitly represented by them for his meekness and humility, for his chaste and strong affection to his church, as the turtledove to its mate, and for those dove like graces of the Spirit which are in him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Vid. T. Bab. Cholin, fol. 22. 1, 2.
F13 Issure Mizbeach, c. 3. sect. 1, 2. Vid. Misn. Zebachim, c. 7. sect. 5. & Maimon. & Bartenora, in ib.

Levitico 1:14 In-Context

12 Poi lo si taglierà a pezzi, che, insieme colla testa e col grasso, il sacerdote disporrà sulle legna messe sul fuoco sopra l’altare;

13 ma le interiora e le gambe si laveranno con acqua, e il sacerdote offrirà ogni cosa e la farà fumare sull’altare. Questo è un olocausto, un sacrifizio di soave odore, fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno.

14 Se la sua offerta all’Eterno è un olocausto d’uccelli, offrirà delle tortore o de’ giovani piccioni.

15 Il sacerdote offrirà in sacrifizio l’uccello sull’altare, gli spiccherà la testa, la farà fumare sull’altare, e il sangue d’esso sarà fatto scorrere sopra uno de’ lati dell’altare.

16 Poi gli toglierà il gozzo con quel che contiene, e getterà tutto allato all’altare, verso oriente, nel luogo delle ceneri.