Leviticus 12:3

And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

In Context

2Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.

4And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may be touched by her, and she may not come into the holy place, till the days for making her clean are ended.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:11In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

Leviticus 15:3If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean.

Luke 1:59And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

John 7:22Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

Romans 4:11And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

Galatians 5:3Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 12:2-6

Ceremonial Purification. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 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. 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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