12:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
12:2 “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; as she is in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.
12:3 Then on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
12:4 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.
▷ ①Lit blood of purifying; i.e., ritually clean blood from childbirth
12:5 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.
▷ ①See note v 4
12:6 ‘When 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 as a ①sin offering.
▷ ①Or purification offering
12:7 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.
▷ ①Lit fountain
12:8 But if ①she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young doves, the one as a burnt offering and the other as a ②sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’ ”
▷ ①Lit her hand does not find enough for ②Or purification offering