Bible Commentaries

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 12

Introduction

1  The purification of a woman after childbirth.
6  Her offerings for her purifying.
Verse 2

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.
If a woman
Genesis 1:28, 3:16, Job 14:4, 15:14, 25:4, Psalms 51:5, Luke 2:22, Romans 5:12-19
according
15:19
Verse 3

And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:11,12, Deuteronomy 30:6, Luke 1:59, 2:21, John 7:22,23, Romans 3:19, 4:11,12, Galatians 3:17, 5:3, Philippians 3:5, Colossians 2:11
Verse 4

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.
15:25-28, Haggai 2:13, Luke 2:22,23
Verse 5

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.
2,4, Genesis 3:13, 1 Timothy 2:14,15
Verse 6

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:
a lamb
1:10-13, 5:6-10, 14:22, 15:14,29, Numbers 6:10, Luke 2:22, John 1:29, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 7:26, 1 Peter 1:18,19
of the first year
Heb. a son of his year.
Verse 7

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.
make
1:4, 4:20,26,31,35, Job 1:5, 14:4, Romans 3:23,26, 1 Corinthians 7:14, Hebrews 9:12-14
be cleansed
15:28-30
a male
Galatians 3:28
Verse 8

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 not able to bring a lamb
Heb. her hand find not sufficiency of a lamb.
1:14, 5:7, 14:22, 15:14,29, Luke 2:22,24, 2 Corinthians 8:9
make an atonement
4:26; When burnt offerings and sin offerings were brought together, the sin offerings were first offered.

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