Leviticus 12:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Any woman who gives birth to a daughter is unclean for two weeks, just as she is during her period. And she won't be completely clean for another sixty-six days.

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

The LORD God then asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The snake tricked me,” she answered. “And I ate some of that fruit.”

Leviticus 12:2

to say to the community of Israel: If a woman gives birth to a son, she is unclean for seven days, just as she is during her monthly period.

Leviticus 12:4

but her loss of blood keeps her from being completely clean for another thirty-three days. During this time she must not touch anything holy or go to the place of worship.

Leviticus 12:6

When the mother has completed her time of cleansing, she must come to the front of the sacred tent and bring to the priest a year-old lamb as a sacrifice to please me and a dove or a pigeon as a sacrifice for sin.