E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 12:3
circumcised. See note on "leprosy", Leviticus 13:2 . read more
利未记 12:2-4 Cunpss
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 12:4
three and thirty. Half the period of maid child. See Leviticus 12:5 (7 + 33 = 40. See App-10 ). hallowed. Hebrew. kadesh. See note on Exodus 3:5 . read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 12:2
2. If a woman, c.—The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised (Genesis 17:12 Romans 4:11-13); the mother of a girl for two weeks (Leviticus 12:5) —a stigma on the sex (1 Timothy 2:14; 1 Timothy 2:15) for sin, which was removed by Christ; everyone who came near her during that time contracted a similar defilement. After these periods, visitors might approach her though she was still excluded from the public ordinances of religion... 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 12:2
(2) If a woman have conceived seed.—Rather, if a woman bringeth forth seed, that is, is delivered of a child. (See Genesis 1:11-12; Genesis 1:29.) This general statement is afterwards specified by the phrases “and born a man child,” and “bear a maid child,” in the verse before us, and in Leviticus 12:5. Thus the regulations about impurity naturally begin with the beginning of life. According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, the regulations here set forth with regard to... 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
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 12:4
(4) Continue in the blood of her purifying.—Better, continue in the blood of purification, that is, pure blood. Though the discharge consequent upon the birth ceases after two or three weeks, the period in this case, as in the former instance, is nearly doubled, to include exceptional cases. During these thirty-three days, which constituted the second stage, the mother was only debarred from touching holy things, such as first tithes, the flesh of thank- and peace-offerings, &c, and from... 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
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 12:2
children. Hebrew sons. seven days. See note on Leviticus 12:5 . according to the days. Compare Leviticus 15:19 . read more