Leviticus
12
- The LORD said to Moses,
- "Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who
becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for
seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
- On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
- Then the woman must wait thirty-three days
to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go
to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.
- If she gives birth to a daughter, for two
weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait
sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
- "'When the days of her purification
for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance
to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon
or a dove for a sin offering.
- He shall offer them before the LORD to make
atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of
blood. "'These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a
boy or a girl.
- If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring
two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for
a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she
will be clean.'"
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