Leviticus

Leviticus sets out offerings, priestly duties, purity laws, the Day of Atonement, and the call to be holy. It shows that access to God is by sacrifice and that everyday life is to reflect his character.

Author: Moses (traditional)
Date: c. 1446–1406 BC
Theme: Holiness: how a redeemed people live with a holy God.
Key verses: Leviticus 16:30; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 19:18
English Revised Version

Leviticus 12

1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean. 3And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4And she shall 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. 5But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days. 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 tent of meeting, unto the priest: 7and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female. 8And if her means suffice not for 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 shall be clean.

English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.