12Then^a Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the Israelites,^b saying, ‘When a woman becomes pregnant and she gives birth to a male,^c then^d she shall be unclean seven days—as in the time of her menstrual bleeding, she shall become unclean. ³And on the eighth day his foreskin’s flesh shall be circumcised. ⁴And for thirty-three days she shall stay in the blood of her cleansing; she must not touch any holy object, and she may not come to the sanctuary until the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing. ⁵But^e if she gives birth to a female,^f then^g she shall be unclean for two weeks as in her menstruation, and for sixty-six days she shall stay through^h the blood of her cleansing. ⁶And at the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing, whether for a son or for a daughter, she must bring to the priest at the tent of assembly’s entrance a yearlingⁱ male lamb as a burnt offering and young dove^j or a turtledove as a sin offering. ⁷And the priest shall present it before^k Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for her, so that^l she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the regulation of childbearing^m for the maleⁿ or for the female.^o ⁸And if she cannot afford^p a sheep,^q then^r she shall take two turtledoves or two young doves^s—one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering—and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that^t she shall be clean.’ ”

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Footnotes

aOr “And”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cOr “son”
dOr “and”
eOr “And”
fOr “daughter”
gOr “and”
hOr “at” or “on”
iLiterally “a son of his year”
jLiterally “son of a dove”
kLiterally “to the faces of”
lOr “and”
mLiterally “the childbearing”
nOr “son”
oOr “daughter”
pLiterally “her hand does not find enough”
qOr “small livestock”
rOr “and”
sLiterally “sons of a dove”
tOr “and”