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Text -- Leviticus 12:1-8 (NET)
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Purification of a Woman after Childbirth
12:1 The Lord spoke to Moses :
12:2 “Tell the Israelites , ‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child , she will be unclean seven days , as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation .
12:3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised .
12:4 Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity . She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled .
12:5 If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow , and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity .
12:6 “‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter , she must bring a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the Meeting Tent , to the priest .
12:7 The priest is to present it before the Lord and make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean from her flow of blood . This is the law of the one who bears a child, for the male or the female child.
12:8 If she cannot afford a sheep , then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons , one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering , and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Children |
JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF MARY |
Ablution |
LAW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
CLEANSE |
Israel |
Women |
JESUS CHRIST, 4A |
Birth |
Clean |
Defilement |
UNCLEANNESS |
Purification |
Atonement |
DEFILE; DEFILEMENT |
Sanitation |
Pigeon |
Offerings |
Sin-offering |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
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NET Notes: Lev 12:2 See Lev 15:19-24 for the standard purity regulations for a woman’s menstrual period.
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NET Notes: Lev 12:3 This rendering, “the flesh of his foreskin,” is literal. Based on Lev 15:2-3, one could argue that the Hebrew word for “flesh”...
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NET Notes: Lev 12:4 The initial seven days after the birth of a son were days of blood impurity for the woman as if she were having her menstrual period. Her impurity was...
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NET Notes: Lev 12:5 The doubling of the time after the birth of a female child is puzzling (see the remarks in J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:750-51; and G. J. Wenham, Lev...
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NET Notes: Lev 12:7 Heb “from her source [i.e., spring] of blood,” possibly referring to the female genital area, not just the “flow of blood” its...
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