< Leviticus 12 >
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
耶和華對摩西說:
2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she gives seed, and has borne a male, then she has been unclean [for] seven days; she is unclean according to the days of separation for her sickness;
「你曉諭以色列人說:若有婦人懷孕生男孩,她就不潔淨七天,像在月經污穢的日子不潔淨一樣。
3 and in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised;
第八天,要給嬰孩行割禮。
4 and she abides in the blood of her cleansing [for] thirty-three days; she does not come against any holy thing, and she does not go into the sanctuary, until the fullness of the days of her cleansing.
婦人在產血不潔之中,要家居三十三天。她潔淨的日子未滿,不可摸聖物,也不可進入聖所。
5 And if she bears a female, then she has been unclean [for] two weeks, as in her separation; and she abides by the blood of her cleansing [for] sixty-six days.
她若生女孩,就不潔淨兩個七天,像污穢的時候一樣,要在產血不潔之中,家居六十六天。
6 And in the fullness of the days of her cleansing for son or for daughter she brings in a lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove for a sin-offering, to the opening of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest;
「滿了潔淨的日子,無論是為男孩是為女孩,她要把一歲的羊羔為燔祭,一隻雛鴿或是一隻斑鳩為贖罪祭,帶到會幕門口交給祭司。
7 and he has brought it near before YHWH, and has made atonement for her, and she has been cleansed from the fountain of her blood; this [is] the law of her who is bearing, in regard to a male or to a female.
祭司要獻在耶和華面前,為她贖罪,她的血源就潔淨了。這條例是為生育的婦人,無論是生男生女。
8 And if her hand does not find the sufficiency of a sheep, then she has taken two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt-offering and one for a sin-offering, and the priest has made atonement for her, and she has been cleansed.”
她的力量若不夠獻一隻羊羔,她就要取兩隻斑鳩或是兩隻雛鴿,一隻為燔祭,一隻為贖罪祭。祭司要為她贖罪,她就潔淨了。」