Chapter 12
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: When a woman conceives and bears a male, then she is impure seven days; like the days of her menstrual impurity she is impure.
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And on the eighth day he shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin.
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And thirty-three days she shall sit in the blood of her purity; she shall not touch any holy thing, and she shall not come to the sanctuary, until the days of her purity are fulfilled.
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And if she bears a female, then she shall be impure for two weeks, like her menstruation, and she shall sit upon the bloods of her ritual purification for sixty-six days.
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And when the days of her ritual purity for a son or for a daughter are fulfilled, she shall bring a lamb, a year-old male, for a burnt offering, and a young dove or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest.
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They shall offer them before the LORD, and he shall make atonement for her, and she shall be ritually purified from the source of her blood. This is the Torah of the one giving birth, for a male or for a female.
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If her hand does not find enough of a sheep or goat, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest shall atone for her, and she shall be pure.