Purification After Childbirth

1YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she will be unclean seven days. As in the days of her monthly period she will be unclean. 3In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is to be circumcised. 4She must continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. 5But if she bears a female child, then she will be unclean two weeks, as in her period. She must continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

6“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she is to 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. 7He is to offer it before YHWH, and make atonement for her; then she will be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.

“‘This is the law for woman who gives birth to a male or a female. 8If she cannot afford a lamb, then she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”