Leviticus 12:2-5
2“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: ‘When a woman gives birth and delivers a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days; aas she is in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. 3Then on bthe eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4And she shall stay at home in her condition of ▼▼Lit blood of purifying; i.e., ritually clean blood from childbirth
blood purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. 5But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall stay at home in her condition of ▼▼See note v 4
blood purification for sixty-six days.
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