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description: "spake. See note on Leviticus 5:14 .  children. Hebrew sons.  seven days. See note on Leviticus 12:5 .  according to the days. Compare Leviticus 15:19 ."
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**spake.** See note on [Leviticus 5:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/14) .

**children.** Hebrew sons.
**seven days.** See note on [Leviticus 12:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/5) .
**according to the days.** Compare [Leviticus 15:19](../../../kjv/leviticus/15/19) .

**circumcised.** See note on "leprosy", [Leviticus 13:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/2) .

**three and thirty.** Half the period of maid child. See [Leviticus 12:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/5) (7 + 33 = 40. See App-10 ).
**hallowed.** Hebrew. *kadesh.* See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .

**purifying** = purification, i.e. pure blood as distinct from the other.
**threescore and six days.** Double that after a man child. See [Leviticus 12:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/4) (14 + 66 = 80). This ordinance was not on account of any disparity between the sexes, but was in order to regulate them, so that the birth-rate of females might not be in too great excess, as it otherwise would have been, and is, where this ordinance is not known or observed.

**she shall bring.** As Mary did. [Luke 2:22-24](../../../kjv/luke/2/22-24) .
**door** = entrance.
**tabernacle** = tent. Hebrew. *'ohel* . App-40 .

**offer it** = bring it near. Hebrew. *karab.* App-43 .
**make.** Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac read, "and the priest shall make", as in [Leviticus 12:8](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/8) .
**make an atonement.** See note on [Exodus 29:33](../../../kjv/exodus/29/33) .
**issue** = fount [discharge].

**two turtles.** See [Luke 2:22](../../../kjv/luke/2/22) , [Luke 2:24](../../../kjv/luke/2/24) , and compare [2 Corinthians 8:9](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/8/9) .

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