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Laws of Motherhood

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying,If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, she shall be ceremonially unclean for seven days, unclean aas during her monthly period. On athe eighth day the flesh of the male child’s foreskin shall be circumcised. Then she shall remain intimately separated thirty-three days to be purified from the blood; she shall not touch any consecrated thing nor enter the courtyard of the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly period, and she shall remain intimately separated sixty-six days to be purified from the blood.

aWhen the days of her purification are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting a one year old lamb as a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove bas a sin offering; and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who gives birth to a child, whether a male or a female child. If she cannot afford a lamb then she shall take atwo turtledoves or young pigeons, bone as a burnt offering, the other as a sin offering; the cpriest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’” Luke 2:22, 24

Laws of Motherhood

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:When a woman gives birth and delivers a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days; aas she is in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. Then on athe eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. And she shall stay at home in her condition of 1blood purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall stay at home in her condition of 1blood purification for sixty-six days.

aWhen the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one-year-old lamb as a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove bas a 1sin offering. Then he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the 1flow of her blood. This is the law for her who gives birth to a child, whether a male or a female. But if 1she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take atwo turtledoves or two young doves, bthe one as a burnt offering and the other as a 2sin offering; and the cpriest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

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