Purification After Childbirth

¹YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she will be unclean seven days. As in the days of her monthly period she will be unclean.

³In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is to be circumcised.

⁴She must continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.

⁵But if she bears a female child, then she will be unclean two weeks, as in her period. She must continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

⁶“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.

⁷He is to offer it before YHWH, and make atonement for her; then she will be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.

“‘This is the law for woman who gives birth to a male or a female.

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