Leviticus 12:6

And when the days of her purification have been completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a one-year-old lamb as a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for sin, and she shall deliver them to the priest.

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In The King James Version

And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

In Context

5But if she will bear a female, she shall be unclean for two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly flow, and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.

7He shall offer them in the sight of the Lord, and he shall pray for her. And so she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for one who bears a male or a female.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:6and let him offer from the flocks a female lamb or a she-goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.

Leviticus 14:22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other as a holocaust.

Leviticus 15:29and on the eighth day she shall offer for herself, to the priest, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

Luke 2:22And after the days of her purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem, in order to present him to the Lord,

2 Corinthians 5:21For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.

1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers,

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 12:2-6

Ceremonial Purification. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary,… Read the whole commentary →

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