Leviticus 12:2
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, then she will be unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during the days of her monthly period.
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3On the eighth day the flesh of a baby boy's foreskin must be circumcised.
Cross References
Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply. Fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Leviticus 5:3Or if he touches the uncleanness of someone, whatever that uncleanness is, and if he is unaware of it, then he will be guilty when he learns about it.
Leviticus 15:19When a woman menstruates, her impurity will continue for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.
Job 14:4Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one. 1
Job 25:4How then can man be righteous with God? 1 How can he who is born of a woman be clean, acceptable to him? 1
Luke 2:22When the required number of days for their purification had passed, according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary + 2:22 The proper names Joseph and Mary were not in the original text, and are supplied for the reader from the third person plural verb. brought him up to the temple in 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 →