Leviticus 12:6

When the days of her purification are finished, for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one year old lamb as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or dove as a sin offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.

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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 gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as she is during her period. Then the mother's purification will continue for sixty-six days.

7Then he will offer it before Yahweh and make atonement for her, and she will be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law regarding a woman who gives birth to either a male or a female child.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:6Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh for the sin that he has committed, a female animal from the flock, either a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering, and the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.

Leviticus 14:22together with two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; one bird will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

Leviticus 15:29On the eighth day she will take to her two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Luke 2:22When the required number of days for their purification had passed, according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary + 2:22 The proper names Joseph and Mary were not in the original text, and are supplied for the reader from the third person plural verb. brought him up to the temple in Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:21He made Christ become the sacrifice for our sin. He is the one who never sinned. He did this so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

1 Peter 1:18You know that it was not with perishable silver or gold that you have been redeemed from the foolish behavior that you learned from 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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