If a woman: Genesis 1:28, Genesis 3:16; Job 14:4, Job 15:14, Job 25:4; Psalms 51:5; Luke 2:22; Romans 5:12-19
according: Leviticus 15:19
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Leviticus 12:2
Leviticus 12:2
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Leviticus 12 — OverviewLeviticus 12 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleAfter the laws concerning clean and unclean food come the laws
concerning clean and unclean persons; and the first is in this chapter
concerning the ceremonial uncleanness of women in child-birth, ver.
1-5. And…Leviticus 12 — OverviewLeviticus 12 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeLeviticus 12:1, The purification of a woman after childbirth; Leviticus 12:6, Her offerings for her purifying.Leviticus 12 — OverviewLeviticus 12 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter treats of the purification of a new mother, the time of whose purification for a man child was forty days, and for a maid child eighty, Le 12:1 at the close of which she was to bring her offerings to the…Leviticus 12:1-5Leviticus 12:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe law here pronounces women lying-in ceremonially unclean. The Jews
say, "The law extended even to an abortion, if the child was so formed
as that the sex was distinguishable." 1. There was some time of strict…Leviticus 12:1-8Leviticus 12:1-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
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 which regards some…Leviticus 12:1-8Leviticus 12:1-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe purification of the Church.
At the commencement of his treatise on this Book of Leviticus, Cyril of Alexandria truly says, that as the Word of God came into the world arrayed in flesh, in which bodily appearance he…