Purification After Childbirth

¹ Then¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

1. Or “And”

² “Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟,¹ saying, ‘When a woman becomes pregnant and she gives birth to a male,² then³ she shall be unclean seven days—as in the time of her menstrual bleeding, she shall become unclean.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Or “son”
3. Or “and”

³ And on the eighth day his foreskin’s flesh shall be circumcised.

⁴ And 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.

⁵ But¹ if she gives birth to a female,² then³ she shall be unclean for two weeks as in her menstruation, and for sixty-six days she shall stay ⌞through⌟⁴ the blood of her cleansing.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “daughter”
3. Or “and”
4. Or “at” or “on”

⁶ And 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 ⌞yearling⌟¹ male lamb as a burnt offering and ⌞young dove⌟² or a turtledove as a sin offering.

1. Literally “a son of his year”
2. Literally “son of a dove”

⁷ And the priest shall present it ⌞before⌟¹ Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for her, so that² she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the regulation of childbearing³ for the male⁴ or for the female.⁵

1. Literally “to the faces of”
2. Or “and”
3. Literally “the childbearing”
4. Or “son”
5. Or “daughter”

⁸ And if ⌞she cannot afford⌟¹ a sheep,² then³ she shall take two turtledoves or two ⌞young doves⌟⁴—one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering—and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that⁵ she shall be clean.’ ”

1. Literally “her hand does not find enough”
2. Or “small livestock”
3. Or “and”
4. Literally “sons of a dove”
5. Or “and”