Leviticus 12

¹ The LORD spoke to Moses:

² “Tell the Israelites: ‘When a woman conceives and gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days; she will be unclean as during her menstrual period.

³ On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

⁴ She will then remain for thirty-three days in the blood of her purification. She must not touch anything sacred or enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete.

⁵ If she gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean for two weeks, as during her menstrual period; and she will remain for sixty-six days in the blood of her purification.

⁶ When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old lamb as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering.

⁷ He will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her, and she will be clean from her flow of blood. This is the rule for a woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.

⁸ If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as a burnt offering and the other as a sin offering. The priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

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