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"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; ^(C1)as she is in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.

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'Then on ^(C1)the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

'And she shall stay at home in her condition of ^(F1)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.

'But 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 ^(F1)blood purification for sixty-six days.