利未記 12:3 RCUVTS

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 12:1-8

Concerning childbirth (12:1-8)One consequence of Eve’s sin that affected women in general was the trouble and pain of childbirth (Genesis 3:16). The process of conceiving and giving birth was affected by sin from the beginning (Psalms 51:5), which is probably the reason why Israelite law required the mother to be ceremonially cleansed after childbirth. If the child born was a boy, the mother was cut off from physical contact with members of her family for seven days, and from all things... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 12:3

circumcised. See note on "leprosy", Leviticus 13:2 . read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 12:1-8

2. Uncleanness due to childbirth ch. 12The laws of purification begun in this chapter connect in principle with the preceding ones that deal with unclean food and animals. The defilement dealt with in this group of laws (chs. 12-15) proceeded from the human body. Pollution could come from within the Israelite as well as from his or her environment. Contamination resulted in separation from the fellowship of the sanctuary and or fellow Israelites.". . . at first sight no reason or rationale is... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 12:1-8

Uncleanness connected with ChildbirthThe functions of reproduction are in early stages of religion regarded with superstitious dread. The enactments in this chapter and the related regulations in Leviticus 15 had an important place in teaching the lesson of purity in sexual relationships.3. Cp. Genesis 17:10-14. The purifications prescribed in this chapter are for the mother alone and not for the child, who does not seem to have been regarded as unclean, unless the rite of circumcision involved... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 12:3

(3) And in the eighth day.—When the seven days had passed by during which the mother remained un clean, the boy is to be circumcised, since on the eighth day the first period of her extreme state of impurity ceases, and she no more imparts defilement to whomsoever or to whatsoever she touches. For the rite of circumcision, see Genesis 17:10; Genesis 17:13. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 12:1-8

THE UNCLEANNESS OF CHILD BEARINGLeviticus 12:1-8THE reference in Leviticus 12:2 to the regulations given in Leviticus 15:19, as remarked in the preceding chapter, shows us that the author of these laws regarded the circumstances attending child birth as falling under the same general category, in a ceremonial and symbolic aspect, as the law of issues. As a special case, however, the law concerning child birth presents some very distinctive and instructive features.The period during which the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 12:3

THE ORDINANCE OF CIRCUMCISIONLeviticus 12:3"And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised."Although the rite of circumcision here receives a new and special sanction, it had been appointed long before by God as the sign of His covenant with Abraham. {; Genesis 17:10-14} Nor was circumcision, probably, even then a new thing. That the ancient Egyptians practised it is well known; so also did the Arabs and Phoenicians; in fact, the custom has been very extensively observed,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Leviticus 12:1-8

2. Childbirth Laws and Inherited Sin CHAPTER 12 1. The man-child (Leviticus 12:1-4 ) 2. The maid-child (Leviticus 12:5 ) 3. The offerings (Leviticus 12:6-8 ) The childbirth laws as contained in this chapter are full of meaning. The woman is constituted unclean by the birth of a child. When a man-child was born, she was to be unclean for seven days, and her purification was to end thirty-three days after that; forty days after childbirth. (A. Bonar, in his work on Leviticus, makes the... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 12:1-8

LAWS CONNECTED WITH CHILDBIRTH Every child born into the world adds to the sin that was first introduced by the woman. Yet God had told Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28), and this instruction was not changed when they sinned, though God told the woman, “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children” (Genesis 3:16). But each child born is a reminder that sin requires a sacrifice. So in Israel when a woman had borne a... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Leviticus 12:1-8

SIN AT THE FOUNTAINHEAD What period of uncleanness followed the birth of a male (Leviticus 12:2 )? What transaction in his life took place on the 8th day (Leviticus 12:3 )? How long was the period of the mother’s purification (Leviticus 12:4 )? What difference was there as to these two periods in the case of a female child (Leviticus 12:5 )? What was required of the mother at the close of this period (Leviticus 12:6 )? The reason for it (Leviticus 12:7 )? How does Leviticus 12:8 compare... read more