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Leviticus 12

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1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, ⓚ she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity. ⓛ
3 The flesh of his foreskin ⓜ must be circumcised ⓝ on the eighth day. ⓐ
4 She will continue in purification ⓑ from her bleeding ⓒ for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.
5 But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
6 “When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin [1] offering.
7 He will present them before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female.
8 But if she doesn’t have sufficient means [2] ⓓ for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, ⓔ one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.”
Footnotes & Cross-References
Footnotes
Leviticus 12:6 [26] Or purification offering; also in verse 8