Leviticus 12:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

In Context

2“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:21If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 12:1

After 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 concerning their purification from that uncleanness, ver. 6 , &c. Read the whole commentary →

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