Chapter 12:
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Leviticus 12
Laws concerning the uncleanness of women in child-birth,
ver. 1-5. Concerning their purification, ver. 6-8.
Verse 1. From uncleanness contracted by the touching or eating of
external things, he now comes to that uncleanness which ariseth
from ourselves.
Verse 2. Seven days - Not for any filthiness which was either in the
conception, or in bringing forth, but to signify the universal and
deep pollution of man's nature, even from the birth, and from the
conception. Seven days or thereabouts, nature is employed in the
purgation of most women. Her infirmity - Her monthly infirmity.
And it may note an agreement therewith not only in the time,
chap. xv, 19, but in the degree of uncleanness.
Verse 4. In the blood of her purifying - In her polluted and separated
estate; for the word blood or bloods signifies both guilt, and
uncleanness, as here and elsewhere. And it is called the blood of
her purifying, because by the expulsion or purgation of that blood,
which is done by degrees, she is purified. No hallowed thing - She
shall not eat any part of the peace-offerings which she or her
husband offered, which otherwise she might have done; and, if
she be a priest's wife, she shall not eat any of the tythes or first
fruits, or part of the hallowed meats, which at other times she
together with her husband might eat.
Verse 5. Threescore and six days - The time in both particulars is double
to the former, not so much from natural causes, as to put an
honour upon the sacrament of circumcision, which being
administered to the males, did put an end to that pollution sooner
than otherwise had been.
Verse 6. For a son or a daughter - For the birth of a son, or of a daughter:
but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following
verses. A sin-offering - Because of her ceremonial uncleanness,
which required a ceremonial expiation.
Verse 8. The morality of this law obliges women who have received
mercies from God in child-bearing, with all thankfulness to
acknowledge his goodness to them, owning themselves unworthy
of it, and (which is the best purification) to continue in faith, and
love, and holiness, with sobriety.
Chapter 12:
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