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Leviticus 12 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Atonement After Giving Birth

(cf. Luk 2:22–24 )
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:1 -

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:

‘When a woman [fn]gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of [fn]her menstruation she shall be unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:3 - ‘Now on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:4 - ‘Then she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any holy thing; and she shall not enter the sanctuary until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - ‘But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her [fn]menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for sixty-six days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 -

‘When the days of her cleansing are fulfilled, 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 for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - ‘Then he shall bring it near before Yahweh and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the [fn]flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - ‘But if [fn]she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
LSB Footnotes
Lit produces seed
Lit the impurity of her sickness
Lit impurity
Lit fountain
Lit her hand does not find a sufficiency of a lamb
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