Leviticus 12:5 BSB — MannaFest

Leviticus 12:5

If, 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.

BSB

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ASV

But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

KJV

But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Some have thought that this doubling of each of the two periods was intended to remind the people of the fact that woman represents the lower side of human nature, and was the first to fall into temptation. 1Ti 2:13-15; 1Pe 3:7. The ancients had a notion that the mother suffers for a longer time after the birth of a girl than after the birth of a boy. The period required for the restoration of her health in the one case was thirty days, and in the other, it was 40 or 42 days.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Why the time of both those was double for a female to what it was for a male I can assign no reason but the will of the Law-maker; in Christ Jesus no difference is made of male and female, Gal. iii. But this ceremonial uncleanness which the law laid women in child-bed under was to signify the pollution of sin which we are all conceived and born in, Ps. li.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
נְקֵבָ֣ה	ne.ke.Vah	a female	H5347 →
תֵלֵ֔ד	te.Led	she will bear	H3205 →
וְטָמְאָ֥ה	ve.ta.me.'Ah	and she will be unclean	H2930 →
שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם	she.vu.'A.yim	two weeks	H7620 →
כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ	ke.ni.da.Tah	like menstruous impurity her	H5079 →
וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים	ve.shi.Shim	and sixty	H8346 →
יוֹם֙	yOm	day[s]	H3117 →
וְשֵׁ֣שֶׁת	ve.She.shet	and six	H8337 →
יָמִ֔ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
תֵּשֵׁ֖ב	te.Shev	she will remain	H3427 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
דְּמֵ֥י	de.Mei	[the] blood<s> of	H1818 →
טָהֳרָֽה׃	to.ho.Rah	purification	H2892 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:3
  I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- 1 Timothy 2:14
  And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.
- Genesis 4:10–12
  “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
- Genesis 3:4–6
  “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
- John 18:35
  “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”
Through
Leviticus 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.
leads to
- Luke 2:22
  And 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
- Leviticus 15:19
  When 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.
- Job 25:4
  How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Leviticus

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Leviticus