Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “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.Lev 15:19; 18:19 3 Then on athe eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.Gen 17:12; Luke 1:59; 2:21 4 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.Lit blood of purifying; i.e., ritually clean blood from childbirth 5 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.See note v 4
6 ‘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.Or purification offeringLuke 2:22Lev 5:7 7 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.Lit fountain 8 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.’”Lit her hand does not find enough forOr purification offeringLuke 2:22-24Lev 5:7Lev 4:26