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Leviticus 12:5

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But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

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Leviticus 12:5 in other translations

But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

Leviticus 12:5 · American Standard Version

Leviticus 12:5 in context

  1. 3In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
  2. 4She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
  3. 5But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
  4. 6“ ‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.
  5. 7He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.
    “ ‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.