After a person recovered from a disease or an illness, he was considered unclean for yet seven more days. On the eighth day he was to bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest – one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.
Why was it necessary to offer sacrifices when one recovered from an illness or a disease? For one thing, it underscored the fact that physical health isn’t the same as spiritual health. The inside of a person is far more important than the outside. The problem on the inside is the result of sin, for which there is no atonement without the shedding of blood.
