Atonement After Giving Birth

1Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:

‘When a woman [†]gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of [†]her menstruation she shall be unclean. 3Now on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4Then she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any holy thing; and she shall not enter the sanctuary until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled. 5But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her [†]menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for sixty-six days.

6‘When the days of her cleansing are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. 7Then he shall bring it near before Yahweh and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the [†]flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female. 8But if [†]she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”