Leviticus 12:5
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But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.

Leviticus 12:2,4 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers. . . .

Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

1 Timothy 2:14,15 And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression. . . .

Context
Purification after Childbirth
4But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled. 5But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.6And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.…
Cross References
Leviticus 12:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

Leviticus 12:4
But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled.

Leviticus 12:6
And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.

Lexicon
if, however,
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

she gives birth to
תֵלֵ֔ד (ṯê·lêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

a daughter,
נְקֵבָ֣ה (nə·qê·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5347: A female

[the woman] will be unclean
וְטָמְאָ֥ה (wə·ṭā·mə·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2930: To be or become unclean

for two weeks
שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם (šə·ḇu·‘a·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's Hebrew 7620: A period of seven (days, years), heptad, week

as she is during menstruation.
כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ (kə·nid·dā·ṯāh)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5079: Rejection, impurity, personal, moral

Then she must continue
תֵּשֵׁ֖ב (tê·šêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

purification
טָהֳרָֽה׃ (ṭā·ho·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2893: Ceremonial purification, moral purity

from her bleeding
דְּמֵ֥י (də·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

for sixty-six
וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים (wə·šiš·šîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8346: Sixty

days.
יוֹם֙ (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day


Additional Translations
If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three score and six days.

But 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.

But if she should have born a female child, then she shall be unclean twice seven days, according to the time of her monthly courses; and for sixty-six days shall she remain in her unclean blood.

And if she bear a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue sixty-six days in the blood of her cleansing.

But 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.

But if she shall bear a female-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty six days.

But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

'And if a female she bear, then she hath been unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and sixty and six days she doth abide for the blood of her cleansing.
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