Lìwèijì 12:4

4 Fùrén zaì chǎn xuè bù jié zhī zhōng , yào jia jū sān shí sān tiān . tā jiéjìng de rìzi wèi mǎn , bùkĕ mó shèngwù , yĕ bùkĕ jìnrù shèng suǒ .

Lìwèijì 12:4 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 12:4

And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three
and thirty days
That is, so many more, in all forty; for though at the end of seven days she was in some respects free from her uncleanness, yet not altogether, but remained in the blood of her purifying, or in the purifying of her blood, which was more and more purified, and completely at the end of forty days: so with the Persians it is said, a new mother must avoid everything for forty days; when that time is passed, she may wash and be purified F14; and which perhaps Zoroastres, the founder of the Persian religion, at least the reformer of it, being a Jew, as is by some supposed, he might take it from hence:

she shall touch no hallowed thing;
as the tithe, the heave offering, the flesh of the peace offerings, as Aben Ezra explains it, if she was a priest's wife:

nor come into the sanctuary;
the court of the tabernacle of the congregation, or the court of the temple, as the same writer observes; and so with the Greeks, a pregnant woman might not come into a temple before the fortieth day F15, that is, of her delivery:

until the days of her purifying be fulfilled;
until the setting of the sun of the fortieth day; on the morrow of that she was to bring the atonement of her purification, as Jarchi observes; (See Gill on Leviticus 12:6).


FOOTNOTES:

F14 Lib. Shad-der, port. 86. apud Hyde Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. p. 478.
F15 Censorinus apud Grotium in loc.

Lìwèijì 12:4 In-Context

2 Nǐ xiǎoyù Yǐsèliè rén shuō , ruò yǒu fùrén huáiyùn shēng nánhái , tā jiù bù jiéjìng qī tiān , xiàng zaì yuè jìng wūhuì de rìzi bù jiéjìng yíyàng .
3 Dì bá tiān , yào gĕi yīnghái xíng gēlǐ .
4 Fùrén zaì chǎn xuè bù jié zhī zhōng , yào jia jū sān shí sān tiān . tā jiéjìng de rìzi wèi mǎn , bùkĕ mó shèngwù , yĕ bùkĕ jìnrù shèng suǒ .
5 Tā ruò shēng nǚhái , jiù bù jiéjìng liǎng gè qī tiān , xiàng wūhuì de shíhou yíyàng , yào zaì chǎn xuè bù jié zhī zhōng , jia jū liù shí liù tiān .
6 Mǎn le jiéjìng de rìzi , wúlùn shì wèi nánhái shì wèi nǚhái , tā yào bǎ yī suì de yánggāo wèi Fánjì , yī zhī chú gē huò shì yī zhǐ bānjiū wèi shú zuì jì , daì dào huì mù ménkǒu jiāo gĕi jìsī .
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