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HH: Even if the ancient Jews did understand about women producing eggs, that is not chiefly what Lev 12:2 concerns, I think. It refers to a woman conceiving and bearing a child. Obviously a woman could produce eggs but not conceive; producing eggs does not automatically lead to giving birth. So the relevant point probably was, in in many other texts, that she conceived and bore. The Hiphil of ZR( here would seem to include the implanting of the male seed in the wall of the uterus.
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