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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD spoke to Moses: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4She will continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He will present them before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But if she doesn't have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean." |
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