Leviticus 12:2
Good News Translation
for the people of Israel. For seven days after a woman gives birth to a son, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period.

New Revised Standard Version
Speak to the people of Israel, saying: If a woman conceives and bears a male child, she shall be ceremonially unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.

Contemporary English Version
to say to the community of Israel: If a woman gives birth to a son, she is unclean for seven days, just as she is during her monthly period.

New American Bible
Tell the Israelites: When a woman has a child, giving birth to a boy, she shall be unclean for seven days, with the same uncleanness as during her menstrual period.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

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Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Luke 2:22 And after the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord:

Romans 5:12-19 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. . . .

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Leviticus 15:19 The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days.

Context
Purification after Childbirth
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.3And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:…
Cross References
Leviticus 12:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 15:19
The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days.

Leviticus 18:19
Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

2 Samuel 11:4
And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:

Leviticus 12:1
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