The time of purification after the birth of a female was twice as long as that after a male. The belief that the birth of a girl was more dangerous for the mother than the birth of a boy prevailed among ancient nations, who considered that hostile supernatural beings were more to be feared in these cases. The practice, at here, survived the belief on which it was founded. Observe that the mother is regarded as unclean but not the child.
Verse Leviticus 12:4. _THE BLOOD OF HER PURIFYING_] A few words will make this subject sufficiently plain. 1. God designs that the human female should bring forth children. 2. That children should d...
This chapter would more naturally follow the 15th chapter of Leviticus. See the note to Leviticus 15:1....
The Levitical law ascribed impurity exclusively to the mother, in no degree to the Child....
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...
THREE AND THIRTY. Half the period of maid child. See Leviticus 12:5 (7. 33. 40. See App-10). HALLOWED. Hebrew. _kadesh._ See note on Exodus 3:5....
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...
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...
On the eighth day the mother is readmitted to society, but is still debarred from the services of the tabernacle till forty days after the birth....
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...
CONTINUE IN THE BLOOD OF HER PURIFYING. — Better, _continue in the blood of purification,_ that is, _pure blood._ Though the discharge consequent upon the birth ceases after two or three weeks, the pe...
וּ שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים יֹום֙ וּ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֔ים תּ
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...
PURIFICATION AFTER CHILD BIRTH Leviticus 12:4 "And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the da...
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...
And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three (b) and thirty days; she shall touch no (c) hallowed thing, nor come into the (d) sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfille...
_Sanctuary, or court of the tabernacle, where the women had probably a place apart. (Calmet)_...
Observe to what extent the law of uncleanness reached. Reader! do you not find cause to bless GOD who hath done away these ordinances in JESUS CHRIST? Colossians 2:15; Colossians 2:15....
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...
4._And she shall then continue. _The uncleanness of seven days in the case of a male, and fourteen days for a female, has reference to the hemorrhage, as we shall also see elsewhere of the menstrual d...
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 SHE SHALL CONTINUE IN THE BLOOD OF HER PURIFYING THREE AND THIRTY DAYS,.... That is, so many more, in all forty; for though at the end of seven days she was in some respects free from her uncleann...
And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. Ver. 4....
_In the blood of her purifying_ In her polluted and separated estate; for the word _blood_, or _bloods_, signifies both guilt and uncleanness, as here and elsewhere. And it is called _the blood of her...
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.]...
The Purification after Childbirth....
And she shall then, counting from the eighth day, CONTINUE IN THE BLOOD OF HER PURIFYING THREE AND THIRTY DAYS, this making a total of forty days, during which she was to stay at home, although the re...
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...
SHE SHALL THEN CONTINUE, Heb. _sit_, i.e. abide, as that word is oft used, as GENESIS 22:5, GENESIS 34:10, or tarry at home, nor go into the sanctuary. IN THE BLOOD OF HER PURIFYING; in her polluted a...
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 12:4 continue H3427 (H8799) blood H1818 purification H2893 thirty-three H7970 H7969 days H3117 touch H5060
“And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.” Then would...
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....
Haggai 2:13; Leviticus 15:25; Luke 2:22; Luke 2:23...
In the blood of her purifying — In her polluted and separated estate; for the word blood or bloods signifies both guilt, and uncleanness, as here and elsewhere. And it is called the blood of her purif...