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Leviticus 12

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1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

2 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she giveth seed, and hath born a male, then she hath been unclean seven days, according to the days of separation for her sickness she is unclean;

3 and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;

4 and thirty and three days she doth abide in the blood of her cleansing; against any holy thing she doth not come, and unto the sanctuary she doth not go in, till the fulness of the days of her cleansing.

5 `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.

6 `And in the fulness of the days of her cleansing for son or for daughter she doth bring in a lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove for a sin-offering, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, unto the priest;

7 and he hath brought it near before Jehovah, and hath made atonement for her, and she hath been cleansed from the fountain of her blood; this [is] the law of her who is bearing, in regard to a male or to a female.

8 `And if her hand find not the sufficiency of a sheep, then she hath taken two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, one for a burnt-offering, and one for a sin-offering, and the priest hath made atonement for her, and she hath been cleansed.'

   

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Foreskin

  
Abraham Took Ishmael with All the Males Born in His House and Circumcised Them, by illustrators of the 1728 "Figures de la Bible", Gerard Hoet (1648–1733) and others, published by P. de Hondt in The Hague in 1728

Since the foreskin covers the male genitals, it represents the love of self and love of the world, which cover over our potential for good and truth and prevent us from achieving conjunction with our spouses, with the Lord, and with each other. The removal of the foreskin in circumcision represents the removal of these evil loves so that we can receive heavenly things.