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A mother cradles a swaddled infant while carrying two turtledoves toward a priest at the tabernacle entrance after her days of purification.
KING JAMES VERSION

LEVITICUS 12

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Leviticus 12 — After childbirth and the appointed period of purification, a mother brings offerings and is received as clean.

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The affordable pair of birds from verse 8 is chosen to show the chapter’s provision for a family unable to bring a lamb. Mother and child are portrayed with privacy, dignity, and no medical detail.

Scripture basis: Leviticus 12:1–8
  1. 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
  2. 2Speak 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. 3And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
  4. 4And 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.
  5. 5But 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.
  6. 6And 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:
  7. 7Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
  8. 8And 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.

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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