Purification After Childbirth

12 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then (A)she shall be unclean seven days. (B)As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. And on the (C)eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.

(D)“And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, and he shall offer it before the Lord and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female. And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take (E)two turtledoves or two pigeons,[a] (F)one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. (G)And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 12:8 Septuagint two young pigeons

婦人生子成潔之例

12 耶和華對摩西說: 「你曉諭以色列人說:若有婦人懷孕生男孩,她就不潔淨七天,像在月經汙穢的日子不潔淨一樣。 第八天,要給嬰孩行割禮。 婦人在產血不潔之中,要家居三十三天。她潔淨的日子未滿,不可摸聖物,也不可進入聖所。 她若生女孩,就不潔淨兩個七天,像汙穢的時候一樣。要在產血不潔之中,家居六十六天。

「滿了潔淨的日子,無論是為男孩是為女孩,她要把一歲的羊羔為燔祭,一隻雛鴿或是一隻斑鳩為贖罪祭,帶到會幕門口交給祭司。 祭司要獻在耶和華面前,為她贖罪,她的血源就潔淨了。這條例是為生育的婦人,無論是生男生女。 她的力量若不夠獻一隻羊羔,她就要取兩隻斑鳩或是兩隻雛鴿,一隻為燔祭,一隻為贖罪祭。祭司要為她贖罪,她就潔淨了。」