leviticus 12

Summary
Outlines the purification rituals for women after childbirth, specifying the duration of their ceremonial uncleanness and the offerings required for their purification.

Key Points
- A woman who gives birth to a male child is ceremonially unclean for seven days, and the child is to be circumcised on the eighth day (Leviticus 12:1-3).
- The woman must then continue in the blood of her purifying for thirty-three days, during which she must not touch any holy thing or enter the sanctuary (Leviticus 12:4).
- If a woman gives birth to a female child, she is ceremonially unclean for two weeks and must continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days (Leviticus 12:5).
- After the days of her purification are completed, she must bring a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting (Leviticus 12:6).
- If she cannot afford a lamb, she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean (Leviticus 12:8).