Leviticus 12:3-8

3 'On ¹the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

4 'Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three * days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.

5 'But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.

6 '²When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove ³for a sin offering.

7 'Then he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female.

8 'But if she cannot afford * a lamb, then she shall take ⁴two turtledoves or two young pigeons, ⁵the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the ⁶priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.' "

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Leviticus 12:3-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 12

This chapter treats of the purification of a new mother, the time of whose purification for a man child was forty days, and for a maid child eighty, Le 12:1-5 at the close of which she was to bring her offerings to the priests, to make atonement for her, Le 12:6-8.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

1. Genesis 17:12; Luke 1:59; Luke 2:21
2. Luke 2:22
3. Leviticus 5:7
4. Luke 2:22-24
5. Leviticus 5:7
6. Leviticus 4:26

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "impurity"
[b]. Lit "fountain"
[c]. Lit "her hand does not find a sufficiency of a lamb"