Animal Sacrifice

Leviticus 1:14-17 ' And if the burnt sacrifice of his offering to the LORD is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or young pigeons. 'The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar. 'And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes. 'Then he shall split it at its wings, but shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

Jeremiah 34:17-20 " Therefore thus says the LORD: 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,' says the LORD -- 'to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth. 'And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it -- 'the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf -- 'I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 74:18-21 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name. Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your poor forever. Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty. 21 Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your name.

[*Geneva*][Leviticus 1:15]
And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and {i} wring off his head, and burn [it] on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
(i) The Hebrew word signifies to pinch off with the nail.

(ii) “Nipping” refers to a unique method of slaughter performed with the priest's fingernail instead of a knife. Ordinary fowl slaughtered by this method are forbidden as food.

Leviticus 5:7-10 (The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge)

If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord, for his trespass which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it completely.  Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.  And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering according to the prescribed manner. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

[*Geneva*][Leviticus 1:16]
And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the {k} east part, by the place of the ashes: (k) On the side of the court gate in the pans which stood with ashes;  Ex 27:3 .

1. When Mary and Joseph presented Jesus at the temple for her purification rites, she presented the two turtledoves according to Leviticus 12:8 and Luke 2:24.

2. We usually think of Jesus as the sacrificed lamb, but perhaps, the turtledoves (or pigeons) was a satisfactory substitute. If so, they were not to be cut apart ("broken") prefiguring Jesus at the cross (John 19:36) See also Psalm 34:20. "Not one of His bones was broken."

3. Regarding Jeremiah 34:17-20, This was directed to the disobedient. They were not to "pass between the parts of the sacrifice". (whatever that may mean) But with Jesus, prefigured as the turtledove, no one could disobey and were face to face with the sacrifice itself, unable to "pass through" because the bird was not cut apart.