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<a href="../joshua/5.htm">Joshua 5:1-9</a>; <a href="../acts/15.htm">Acts 15:1-4</a>)</span></p><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD said to Moses,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The LORD spoke to Moses: "</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: 'When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext4">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.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext3">'On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext4">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, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext5">She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 33 days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/12.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext3">But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext4">But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext5">But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 66 days." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"'When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext3">'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext4">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:</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext5">When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. "'These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This <i>is</i> the law for her that hath born a male or a female.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext5">He will present them before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext3">'But if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext5">But if she doesn't have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. 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