“Who 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.”
He shall offer them before the Lord to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. This is the law for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. The priest makes atonement for the woman and she is declared ceremonially clean. The completion formula — this is the law for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl — closes the purification regulation for childbirth. The offering and the priestly declaration together restore the woman's full participation in the covenant community's worship. The process that began with the birth is completed by the priestly act of atonement and the divine declaration of cleanness.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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