⁸ If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay^(A) the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value^(B) according to what the one making the vow can afford.

⁷ The poor you will always have with you,^[a] and you can help them any time you want.^(A) But you will not always have me.

²¹ “If, however, they are poor^(A) and cannot afford these,^(B) they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah^[a] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil, ²² and two doves or two young pigeons,^(C) such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.^(D)

¹² For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has,^(A) not according to what one does not have.

The Widow’s Offering^(A)

21 As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.^{(B) 2} He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ³ “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. ⁴ All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”^(C)

⁸ But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons,^(A) one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering.^(B) In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.^(C)’”

¹¹ “‘If, however, they cannot afford^(A) two doves or two young pigeons,^(B) they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah^[a](C) of the finest flour^(D) for a sin offering. They must not put olive oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.

⁷ “‘Anyone who cannot afford^(A) a lamb^(B) is to bring two doves or two young pigeons^(C) to the Lord as a penalty for their sin—one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.