Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 7:4
ור' יהודה בן רועץ דתניא שאלו תלמידים את ר' יהודה בן רועץ אקרא אני (ויקרא יב, ה) שבעים יכול תהא יולדת נקבה טמאה שבעים
[extending the period of uncleanliness to seventy days]? He answered: The law has fixed the period of purity and impurity in the case of a male child and it has fixed the period of purity and impurity in case of a female child. Just as the period of purification after the birth of a female child is double that after the birth of a male child, so must the period of uncleanness after the birth of a female child be no more than double that after the birth of a male child [which is only seven days]. After they left him he sought them out again and said 'You have no need of that explanation since <i>Mikra</i> is determinant, and we read <i>shebu'ayim</i> [two weeks]. The opinion of the Shammaites is advanced in the following [Mishnah]: For we learned:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Zeb. 36b. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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