Leviticus 12

CLV(i) 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. 2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a woman conceives seed and bears a male then she will be unclean seven days; as the days of her menstrual period shall she be unclean. 3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 Then she shall dwell thirty-three days more in her cleansing blood-flows. She shall not touch anything holy, and she shall not come to the sanctuary until the days of her cleansing be full. 5 And if she should bear a female, then she will be unclean two weeks, as during her period, and she shall dwell sixty-six days more in her cleansing blood-flows. 6 When the days of her cleansing are full, for a son or for a daughter she shall bring a year-old he-lamb as an ascent offering and a dove squab or a turtledove as a sin offering to the priest at the opening of the tent of appointment. 7 He will bring it near before Yahweh and make a propitiatory shelter over her, and she will be clean from the fountain of her blood-flows. This is the law for the one giving birth to a male or to a female. 8 Yet if she should not find her means sufficient for a flockling then she will take two turtledoves or two dove squabs, one for an ascent offering and one for a sin offering; the priest will make a propitiatory shelter over her; then she will be clean.