Purifying women after they give birth
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1 Yahweh also said to me, 2 “Tell this to the Israeli people: If a woman gives birth to a son, she must be avoided for seven days, like she must be avoided when she is menstruating each month. 3 The baby son must be circumcised on the eighth day after he is born. 4 Then the woman must wait 33 days to be purified from the bleeding that occurred during childbirth. She must not touch anything that is sacred or enter the Sacred Tent area until that time is ended. 5 If a woman gives birth to a daughter, she must be avoided for two weeks, like she must be avoided when she is menstruating each month. Then she must wait 66 days to be purified from the bleeding that occurred when the baby was born.6 When that time for her to be purified is ended, that woman must bring to the priest at the entrance of the Sacred Tent a one year-old lamb to be completely burned on the altar and a dove or a young pigeon to be sacrificed to enable her to be forgiven by Yahweh for the sins she has committed. 7 The priest will offer them to Yahweh in order that she may be declared ritually clean. Then she will be purified from the flow of blood that occurred when the baby was born.
Those are the regulations for women who give birth to a son or daughter. 8 If a woman who gives birth to a child cannot afford a lamb, she must bring two doves or two young pigeons. One will be burned completely on the altar, and one will be an offering to enable her to be forgiven by God for the sins she has committed. By doing that, the priest will cause that she will be declared ritually clean, and she will no longer need to be avoided.