12:6 “‘When 4 the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one year old lamb 5 for a burnt offering 6 and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering 7 to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest.
1 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “as their due forever”; NRSV “as a perpetual due”; NLT “their regular share.”
2 tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that the cleanness of the place specified is ritual or ceremonial in nature.
3 sn Cf. Lev 7:14, 28-34 for these regulations.
3 tn Heb “And when” (so KJV, NASB). Many recent English versions leave the conjunction untranslated.
4 tn Heb “a lamb the son of his year”; KJV “a lamb of the first year” (NRSV “in its first year”); NAB “a yearling lamb.”
5 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
6 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”