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24 and also to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons,[a] as required by the Torah of Adonai.

25 There was in Yerushalayim a man named Shim‘on. This man was a tzaddik, he was devout, he waited eagerly for God to comfort Isra’el, and the Ruach HaKodesh was upon him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Ruach HaKodesh that he would not die before he had seen the Messiah of Adonai.

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  1. Luke 2:24 Leviticus 12:8

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