Leviticus · 8 verses
Leviticus 12
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A daughter sets the purification clock to exactly twice the length prescribed after a son: two weeks and sixty-six days instead of seven days and thirty-three. The chapter gives the numbers with great precision and gives no reason for the difference.
The two clocks and the offeringsvv. 1–8
The LORD tells Moses to give Israel a rule for childbirth. After a son, the woman is unclean for seven days, and on the eighth day the boy is circumcised; after that, her purification continues for thirty-three days. After a daughter, the first period becomes two weeks and the second sixty-six days. During the continuing purification she must not touch anything sacred or enter the sanctuary. When the days are complete, she brings a year-old lamb and a young pigeon or turtledove to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. If a lamb is beyond her means, the chapter makes the arrangement pleasantly exact: two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for each offering. The priest presents them before the LORD, makes atonement for her, and she is clean.
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Lev 12:2“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.
Lev 12:3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
Lev 12:4The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete.
Lev 12:5If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
Lev 12:6When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.
Lev 12:7And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.
Lev 12:8But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
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Where this is echoed
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- 3Luke 2:21When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.
- 3Luke 1:59On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- 3John 7:22–23But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
- 8Leviticus 5:7If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
- 2Luke 2:22And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord
- 2Leviticus 15:19When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
- 3Genesis 17:11–12You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- 3Philippians 3:5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
- 8Leviticus 4:26He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
- 3Galatians 5:3Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
- 3Colossians 2:11In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- 3Romans 4:11–12And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
- 3Galatians 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
- 3Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- 2Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- 2Romans 5:12–19Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
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