George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Leviticus 12:3
Eighth. Nothing but the child's health could retard the day, (Calmet) unless the parents were under the necessity of taking a journey, as they were in the desert, &c. (Haydock)
Eighth. Nothing but the child's health could retard the day, (Calmet) unless the parents were under the necessity of taking a journey, as they were in the desert, &c. (Haydock)
Verse Leviticus 12:3. _AND IN THE EIGHTH DAY_] Before this time the child could scarcely be considered as having strength sufficient to bear the operation; after this time it was not necessary to del...
This chapter would more naturally follow the 15th chapter of Leviticus. See the note to Leviticus 15:1....
On circumcision, see Genesis 17:5 note....
2. CHILDBIRTH LAWS AND INHERITED SIN CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The man-child (Leviticus 12:1)_ 2. The maid-child (Leviticus 12:5) 3. The offerings (Leviticus 12:6) The childbirth laws as containe
LEVITICUS 12. UNCLEANNESS AFTER CHILDBIRTH AND CIRCUMCISION. The period of uncleanness lasts twice as long after the birth of a girl (see on Leviticus 11). After the first week, when the uncleanness m...
CIRCUMCISED. See note on "leprosy", Leviticus 13:2....
C. 2. LAWS OF PURIFICATION AFTER CHILDBIRTH 12:1-8 a. THE PERIOD OF CEREMONIAL UNCLEANNESS AFTER CHILDBIRTH 12:1-5 TEXT 12:1-5 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of...
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ Mankind are not only liable to defilement from without, but have internal causes of pollution lying deep in their nature. And hence, the laws which were given...
Cp. Genesis 17:10. The purifications prescribed in this chapter are for the mother alone and not for the child, who does not seem to have been regarded as unclean, unless the rite of circumcision invo...
UNCLEANNESS CONNECTED WITH CHILDBIRTH The functions of reproduction are in early stages of religion regarded with superstitious dread. The enactments in this chapter and the related regulations in Le...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
AND IN THE EIGHTH DAY. — When the seven days had passed by during which the mother remained un clean, the boy is to be circumcised, since on the eighth day the first period of her extreme state of imp...
וּ בַ † יֹּ֖ום הַ שְּׁמִינִ֑י יִמֹּ֖ול...
THE UNCLEANNESS OF CHILD BEARING Leviticus 12:1 THE reference in Leviticus 12:2 to the regulations given in Leviticus 15:19, as remarked in the preceding chapter, shows us that the author of these la...
THE ORDINANCE OF CIRCUMCISION Leviticus 12:3 "And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised." Although the rite of circumcision here receives a new and special sanction, it ha...
PURIFICATION AFTER CHILD-BEARING Leviticus 12:1 The birth of a boy involved seven days' ceremonial defilement; of a girl, fourteen. Not the child, but the mother, was adjudged to be unclean, securing...
In this brief section, which deals with the beginning of life, the religious aspect of childbirth is most unquestionably the permanent value. The separation of the woman from the congregation for a pe...
The Jews were careful to observe this eighth day, Genesis 17:11....
The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Priesthood being established, there comes the discernment between holy things and profane, and the judgment of defilements (chaps. 11-15), and wha...
AND IN THE EIGHTH DAY THE FLESH OF HIS FORESKIN SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED. Or the foreskin of his flesh, that is, of the man child born according to the law, Genesis 17:12 and this seems to furnish out a r...
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Ver. 3. _And in the eighth day._] _See Trapp on "_ Gen 17:13 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Gen 17:14 _"_...
1 The purification of women after childbirth. 6 Her offerings for her purifying. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a [NOTE: Leviticus 15:19.]...
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised, Genesis 17, this notice being here inserted lest this very necessary rite be neglected....
The Purification after Childbirth....
LAWS CONNECTED WITH CHILDBIRTH Every child born into the world adds to the sin that was first introduced by the woman. Yet God had told Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28), and t...
Which law is here repeated, because the woman's uncleanness lasting for seven days, was one, though not the only, reason why the child's circumcision was put off till the eighth day....
This brief section reads out to us, after its own peculiar fashion, the double lesson of "man's ruin and God's remedy." But though the fashion is peculiar, the lesson is most distinct and impressive....
Leviticus 12:3 eighth H8066 day H3117 flesh H1320 foreskin H6190 circumcised H4135 (H8735)...
“And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.” At the stage in fact when this law was first communicated, circumcision could not take place. It would have been unwise while co...
CONTENTS: The law of motherhood. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: All are conceived and born in sin (Psalms 51:5) for, if the root be impure, so is the branch. It is only by Christ, the great sin...
Leviticus 12:2. _Speak unto the children of Israel:_ that every man may convey the law to his wife, and assist in the ceremony of purification. Leviticus 12:3. _Circumcised._ To this law our Saviour...
_She shall Be unclean._ BIRTH-SIN AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS The theme of the chapter is the same as that of the one preceding and the one following. The subject is sin, portrayed by symbols. In the divisi...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 12:1__ A WOMAN who has just given birth is considered UNCLEAN because of loss of blood. Three steps are required to become clean again. The time of purification for the mot...
Maternity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 12:2.—If a woman hath conceived … she shall be unclean. Thus at the very entrance into life uncleanness clings to us. Not a child is born without defilement su...
EXPOSITION UNCLEANNESS DERIVED FROM CHILDBIRTH. As there is a natural disgust felt for some kinds of food, which serves as a foundation for the precepts of the last chapter, so there is an instinct w...
In chapter twelve, the Lord now deals with a woman who has born a child. And if it's a male child: she shall be unclean for seven days; after the birth of the child the separation from her infirmity....
Colossians 2:11; Deuteronomy 30:6; Galatians 3:17; Galatians 5:3;...