< Leviticus 12 >
1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying:
上主訓示梅瑟說:
2 Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she conceiveth seed and giveth birth to a male child, then shall she be unclean seven days, according to the days of her removal in her sickness shall she be unclean.
「你告訴以色列子民說:若一婦人分娩,生一男孩,七天之久,她是不潔的;她不潔有如經期不潔一樣。
3 And, on the eighth day, shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.
第八天,應給孩子割損。
4 And, for thirty-three days, shall she continue in the blood of purification, —no hallowed thing, shall she touch, and, into the sanctuary, shall she not enter, until her days of purification are fulfilled.
此外,她還要守度三十三天的潔血期。在未滿取潔的日期以前,不可接觸任何聖物,不可走近聖所。
5 But if, a female child, she bear, then shall she be unclean two weeks as in her removal, —and, for sixty-six days, shall she continue in the blood of purification.
若生一女孩,兩星期是不潔的,有如經期一樣。,此外還要守度六十六天的潔血期。
6 And, when the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring in a lamb, the choice of its year, as an ascending-sacrifice, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove, as a sin-bearer, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, unto the priest;
一滿了取潔的日期,不拘為兒子或女兒,她應在會幕門口交給司祭一隻一歲的羔羊,做全番祭;一隻雛鴿或一隻斑鳩,現作贖罪祭。
7 and he shall bring it near before Yahweh so shall the priest put a propitiatory-covering over her, and she shall be clean from her fountain of blood. This, is the law for her that hath given birth, to a male child or to a female.
司祭將祭品奉獻在上主面前,為她型贖罪禮,她纔算由流血的狀況中潔淨了:以上是關於生男或生女得婦人的法律。
8 But, if her hand findeth not sufficiency for a lamb, then shall she take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, one for an ascending-sacrifice and one for a sin-bearer, —so shall the priest put a propitiatory-covering over her, and she shall be clean.
但若她的財力不夠辦一隻羔羊,可帶兩隻斑鳩或兩隻雛鴿:一隻獻作全番祭,一隻獻作贖罪祭。司祭位他行贖罪禮,她就潔淨了。