Leviticus 12
1Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,
2+ 12:2. Lev 12:2 (Lev 12:2-5, 12:1-8) (#3.211): A woman after childbirth is unclean like the menstruating woman “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
3+ 12:3. Lev 12:3; Gen 17:12 (Gen 17:7-14) (#1.9): To circumcise every male among you on the eighth day after birth On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. + 12:3. Quoted in John 7:22
4She shall continue in purification + 12:4. (3-4) Quoted in Luke 2:21-22 of blood for thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
5But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in purification of blood for sixty-six days.
6+ 12:6. Lev 12:6 (Lev 12:6-8, 12:1-8) (#3.212): T. After a woman gives birth, she is to offer an offering following the days of her purification are fulfilled / R. A woman who gave birth must bring an offering after she goes to the mikvah ·ritual washing, baptism· “‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering:
7and he shall offer it before Adonai, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the Torah ·Teaching· for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
8If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; + 12:8. Quoted in Luke 2:24 the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”