Genesis15:9

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Translation

So He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.”

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Paraphrase

(the same: So He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.”)

Footnotes

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“young pigeon” is a word that means “young bird, nestling.” While it can mean any young bird, it somehow came to refer to a pigeon and it is best to assume that in instances like this it was referring specifically to the pigeon, not just any young bird.