Leviticus 12:2
Any woman who becomes pregnant and has a boy, she will be unclean for one week, in the same way that she is unclean during her period.
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In Context
1The Lord told Moses, “Give these instructions to the Israelites.
3The boy's foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.
Cross References
Genesis 1:28God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.”
Leviticus 5:3If you touch something unclean from someone else who is unclean, even if you're unaware of it, you become guilty.
Leviticus 15:19When a woman has a discharge of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her period for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until the evening.
Job 14:4Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.
Job 25:4How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?
Luke 2:22When the time of their purification according to the law of Moses was finished, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,
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 →