22 (A)[a]And when the days of [b]her purification, after the Law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord,

23 (As it is written in the Law of the Lord, (B)Every man child that first openeth the womb, shall be called holy to the Lord,)

24 And to give an oblation, (C)as it is commanded in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:22 Christ, upon whom all our sins were laid, being offered to God, according to the Law, doth purify both Mary and us all in himself.
  2. Luke 2:22 This is meant, for the fulfilling of the Law: for otherwise the virgin was not defiled, nor unclean, by the birth of this child.

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