Chapter 12
Leviticus, chapter 12
1: The LORD said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, If a woman conceives, and bears a
male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of
her menstruation, she shall be unclean.
3: And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
4: Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her
purifying; she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the
sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
5: But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of
her purifying for sixty-six days.
6: "And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a
son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of
the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a
young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,
7: and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her;
then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law
for her who bears a child, either male or female.
8: And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two
turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the
other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her,
and she shall be clean."