Leviticus12:4

Translation

Then thirty days and three days she shall continue in the purification

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of her blood and she shall not touch any holy thing nor go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.

Paraphrase

Then, for an additional thirty-three days she must continue in the ritual that teaches the importance of her blood; she should not touch anything that is considered holy or go into God’s special meeting place until after her religious ritual that teaches the importance of blood has ended.

Footnotes

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This word does mean “purification or cleansing” because that’s what was usually needed after becoming “unclean.” But in this case, blood is good, so the ritual that usually brought purification was used more to teach the importance of blood than to actually purify from contamination or true defilement.