Leviticus 12 GNV
Summary: This short chapter sets out purification requirements for a woman after childbirth. Following the birth of a son, she is ceremonially unclean for seven days, plus the boy is circumcised on the eighth day, and she remains in a period of blood purification for thirty-three more days, avoiding holy things and the sanctuary. For a daughter, the periods double to two weeks of uncleanness and sixty-six days of purification. At the end of the time she brings a lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or dove for a sin offering, with an allowance for two birds instead of a lamb if she cannot afford one — the offering Mary presents after Jesus' birth in Luke 2.
1And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say, When a woman hath brought forth seede, and borne a manchilde, shee shalbe vncleane seuen dayes, like as she is vncleane when she is put apart for her disease.
3(And in the eight day, the foreskin of the childes flesh shalbe circumcised)
4And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirtie dayes: she shall touch no halowed thing, nor come into the Sanctuarie, vntil the time of her purifying be out.
5But if she beare a mayde childe, then shee shalbe vncleane two weekes, as when shee hath her disease: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three score and sixe dayes.
6Nowe when the dayes of her purifying are out, (whether it be for a sonne or for a daughter) shee shall bring to the Priest a lambe of one yeere olde for a burnt offering, and a yong pigeon or a turtle doue for a sinne offring, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation,
7Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her: so she shalbe purged of the issue of her blood this is the law for her that hath borne a male or female.
8But if she bee not able to bring a lambe, she shall bring two turtles, or two yong pigeons: the one for a burnt offring, and the other for a sinne offring: and the Priest shall make an atonement for her: so she shall be cleane.
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