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- The LORD said to Moses,
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- "Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who becomes pregnant
- and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days,
- just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
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- On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
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- Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding.
- She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary
- until the days of her purification are over.
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- If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean,
- as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days
- to be purified from her bleeding.
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- "'When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over,
- she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting
- a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and
- a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.
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- He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her,
- and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood.
- "'These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.
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- If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons,
- one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering.
- In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"