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“Tell the Israelis that a woman who conceives and bears a son is unclean for seven days. Just like the days of her menstruation,[a] she is unclean. On the eighth day, the flesh of the baby’s foreskin is to be circumcised. For 33 days after this, she is to remain in purification due to her blood loss.[b] She is not to touch any sacred thing or enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification have been completed.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 12:2 Lit. days of her impurity, she is ill
  2. Leviticus 12:4 The Heb. lacks loss