Leviticus 12

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said,

² Speak to the sons of Israel and say: woman conceives and gives birth to a boy, she is to be unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly periods.

³ On the eighth day the child’s foreskin must be circumcised,

⁴ and she must wait another thirty-three days for her blood to be purified. She must not touch anything consecrated nor go to the sanctuary until the time of her purification is over.

⁵ If she gives birth to a girl, she is to be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly periods; and she must wait another sixty-six days for her blood to be purified.

⁶ “When the period of her purification is over, for either boy or girl, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a lamb one year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or turtledove as a sacrifice for sin.

⁷ The priest is to offer this before Yahweh, perform the rite of atonement over her, and she will be purified from her flow of blood. “Such is the law concerning a woman who gives birth to either a boy or a girl.

⁸ If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for the holocaust and the other for the sacrifice for sin. The priest is to perform the rite of atonement over her and she will be purified.”‘