“And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.”
The priest shall then offer the other one as a burnt offering in the prescribed way and make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven. The second bird is offered as a burnt offering in the prescribed way — following the bird burnt offering regulations of Leviticus 1:14–17. The two-bird offering of the poor combines the sin offering (atonement for sin) with the burnt offering (total consecration) in a single affordable package. The atonement and forgiveness formula closes this provision: even the poorest Israelite, with nothing more than two small birds, receives the same forgiveness as the high priest with his bull. The God who forgives is not impressed by the size of the offering.
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