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Leviticus 12
The law of purification after childbirth: a mother is unclean for seven days after a son, who is circumcised on the eighth day, and then waits thirty-three days; after a daughter the times are doubled. She then brings a lamb, or two pigeons if she is poor.
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Two birds are what the Law allows for those who cannot afford a lamb, so the family was probably poor.