She shall then continue in the blood of her purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any [a]hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.

‘But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.

(A)‘When the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a (B)lamb [b]of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a (C)sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 12:4 consecrated
  2. Leviticus 12:6 Lit. a son of his year

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