Leviticus 12

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 3:16 · Lev 15:19 · Lev 18:19 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · +4 more

3In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.Cross-references: Gen 17:11 · Deut 30:6 · Luke 1:59 · Luke 2:21 · John 7:22 · Rom 3:19 · +5 more

4She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.Cross-references: Lev 15:25 · Hag 2:13 · Luke 2:22

5But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.Cross-references: Gen 3:13 · Lev 12:2 · Lev 12:4 · 1Tim 2:14

6“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.Cross-references: Lev 1:10 · Lev 5:6 · Lev 12:2 · Lev 14:22 · Lev 15:14 · Lev 15:29 · +6 more

7He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.Cross-references: Lev 1:4 · Lev 4:20 · Lev 4:26 · Lev 4:31 · Lev 4:35 · Lev 15:28 · +7 more

8If 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. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”Cross-references: Lev 1:14 · Lev 4:26 · Lev 5:7 · Lev 14:22 · Lev 15:14 · Lev 15:29 · +2 more