Leviticus 12
Purification After Childbirth
1Then ▼▼Or “And”
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟, ▼▼Literally “sons/children of Israel”
saying, ‘When a woman becomes pregnant and she gives birth to a male, ▼▼Or “son”
then ▼▼Or “and”
she shall be unclean seven days—as in the time of her menstrual bleeding, she shall become unclean. 3And on the eighth day his foreskin’s flesh shall be circumcised. 4And for thirty-three days she shall stay in the blood of her cleansing; she must not touch any holy object, and she may not come to the sanctuary until the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing. 5But ▼▼Or “And”
if she gives birth to a female, ▼▼Or “daughter”
then ▼▼Or “and”
she shall be unclean for two weeks as in her menstruation, and for sixty-six days she shall stay ⌞through⌟ ▼▼Or “at” or “on”
the blood of her cleansing. 6And at the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing, whether for a son or for a daughter, she must bring to the priest at the tent of assembly’s entrance a ⌞yearling⌟ ▼▼Literally “a son of his year”
male lamb as a burnt offering and ⌞young dove⌟ ▼▼Literally “son of a dove”
or a turtledove as a sin offering. 7And the priest shall present it ⌞before⌟ ▼▼Literally “to the faces of”
Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for her, so that ▼▼Or “and”
she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the regulation of childbearing ▼▼Literally “the childbearing”
for the male ▼▼Or “son”
or for the female. ▼▼Or “daughter”
8And if ⌞she cannot afford⌟ ▼▼Literally “her hand does not find enough”
a sheep, ▼▼Or “small livestock”
then ▼▼Or “and”
she shall take two turtledoves or two ⌞young doves⌟ ▼▼Literally “sons of a dove”
—one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering—and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that ▼▼Or “and”
she shall be clean.’ ”
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