‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for (A)him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

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(A)For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; (B)but Me you do not have always.

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21 “But (A)if he is poor and cannot afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, [a]one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, a log of oil, 22 (B)and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 14:21 Approximately two dry quarts

12 For (A)if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

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The Widow’s Two Mites(A)

21 And He looked up (B)and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain (C)poor widow putting in two (D)mites.[a] So He said, “Truly I say to you (E)that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings [b]for God, but she out of her poverty put in (F)all the livelihood that she had.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:2 Gr. lepta, very small copper coins
  2. Luke 21:4 NU omits for God

“How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And (A)sworn by those (B)that are not gods.
(C)When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

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(A)‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. (B)So the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be [a]clean.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 12:8 pure

11 ‘But if he is (A)not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. (B)He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

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(A)‘If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord, for his trespass which he has committed, two (B)turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

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