King James Version
Leviticus 12
8 verses with commentary
Purification After Childbirth
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirth, acknowledging both the blessing of life and effects of the fall.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ's blood, tear...
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XII.
(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—As the reason why God graciously addressed the regulation about the clean and unclean animals to Moses and Aaron conjointly (see Leviticus 11:1), no longer operates here, the Lord now addresses the laws of purification to the Lawgiver alone. The laws of defilement contracted from without by eating or coming in contact with unclean objects are naturally f...
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**22-30. brought the other ram,--**&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their...
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Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
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<strong>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirth, acknowledging bo...
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(2) **If a woman have conceived seed.**—Rather, *if a woman bringeth forth seed, *that is, is delivered of a child. (See Genesis 1:11-12; Genesis 1:29.) This general statement is afterwards specified by the phrases “and born a man child,” and “bear a maid child,” in the verse before us, and in Leviticus 12:5. Thus the regulations about impurity naturally begin with the beginning of life. According...
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**22-30. brought the other ram,--**&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
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<strong>And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirth, acknowledging both the blessing of life and effects of the fall.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality throu...
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(3) **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 impurity ceases, and she no more imparts defilement to whomsoever or to whatsoever she touches. For the rite of circumcision, see Genesis 17:10; Genesis 17:13.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**22-30. brought the other ram,--**&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →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.
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirth, acknowledging both the blessing of life ...
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(4) **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 period in this case, as in the former instance, is nearly doubled, to include exceptional cases. During these thirty-three days, which constituted the second stage, the mother was only debarred fr...
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**22-30. brought the other ram,--**&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
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<strong>But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirth, acknowledging both the blessing of life and effects of the fall....
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(5) **But if she bear a maid child.**—Better, *but if she giveth birth to a female child. *(See Leviticus 12:2.)
**As in her separation.**—Better, *as in the time of her monthly courses. *(See Leviticus 12:2.) In the case of a daughter the days of purification in both stages is exactly double that prescribed at the birth of a son. The reason for this difference is probably owing to the fact that t...
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**22-30. brought the other ram,--**&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest: of the first: Heb. a son of his year
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<strong>And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for rit...
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(6) **And when the days . . . —**Having described in the previous verses the conditions of defilement arising from childbirth, the legislator now prescribes the offerings to be brought for the purification of the woman. The offerings were brought at the expiration of the fortieth day in the case of a boy, and at the end of the eightieth day in the case of a girl, that is, on the forty-first and on...
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**22-30. brought the other ram,--**&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
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<strong>Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirth, acknowledging both the blessing of life and effect...
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(7) **Who shall offer it.**—Better, *and he shall offer it, *that is, the priest shall offer the sin offering. Though two sacrifices were brought—a burnt offering and a sin offering—yet stress is laid on the sin offering, for on it depended the purification and atonement of the mother. Even if the mother gave birth to twins, the administrators of the law during the second Temple decided that the o...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
Read full commentary →And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean. she be: Heb. her hand find not sufficiency of
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<strong>And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Purification After Childbirth</strong>. Regulations for ritual purification following childbirt...
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(8) **And if she be not able.**—As a merciful provision for those who were too poor to bring a lamb, the law permits them to bring a turtle-dove or a pigeon for a burnt offering, provided only it is the same kind of bird as the one brought for a sin offering; that is, they must either be both turtle-doves or both pigeons, and not one turtle-dove and one pigeon. Turtle-doves and pigeons were plenti...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 12
Ceremonial purification.
--After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, "Increase and multiply," Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and commu...
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