Leviticus Chapter 12

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus, chapter twelve, The Eternal One addressed Moses, go talk
with the Israelites and tell them if a woman conceives
and gives birth to a boy, then she will be
ritually unclean for seven days, just like she is unclean
when she is menstruating. When the eighth day arrives, the
boy will be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
A woman who gives birth to a boy must not

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have contact with any holy thing or go into the
sanctuary for thirty three days. She must wait until her
purification is complete and her bleeding from childbirth ends. But
if the woman gives birth to a girl, she will
be ritually unclean for fourteen days, just like she is
unclean when she's menstruating. She must wait sixty six days

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for her purification from bleeding to be complete. After her
days of purification are over, regardless of whether she had
a boy or a girl, she will bring several things
to the priest at the entrance of the congregation, tent
a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a
young pigeon or turtle dove for purification offering. Then the
priest will present it to me and cover the woman's

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blood impurity, and she will be ritually clean from her
flowing of blood. This is my instruction for any woman
who gives birth to a child, either a boy or
a girl. If the woman cannot afford a lamb, then
she may instead present two turtle doves or two young pigeons,
one for a burnt offering and the other for a
purification offering. The priest will offer them to cover her

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blood impurity, and she will be ritually clean.