The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel,
saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall
be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she
shall be unclean. And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin
shall be circumcised. Then she shall continue for thirty-three days
in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy,
nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are
completed. But if she bears a female child, then she shall be
unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue
in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
“And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a
son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the
entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt
offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, and he
shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she
shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her
who bears a child, either male or female. And if she cannot afford
a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for
a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest
shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”
