---
title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Leviticus 12"
description: "CHAPTER 12   :-. WOMAN"
image: "/images/missing.jpg"
url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/leviticus/12"
---

CHAPTER 12

. WOMAN'S
UNCLEANNESS BY CHILDBIRTH.

**2. If a woman,** c.—The mother
of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the
child was circumcised ([Genesis 17:12](../../../kjv/genesis/17/12)
[Romans 4:11-13](../../../kjv/romans/4/11-13)); the mother of
a girl for two weeks ([Leviticus 12:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/5))
—a stigma on the sex ([1 Timothy 2:14](../../../kjv/1-timothy/2/14);
[1 Timothy 2:15](../../../kjv/1-timothy/2/15)) for sin, which was
removed by Christ; everyone who came near her during that time
contracted a similar defilement. After these periods, visitors might
approach her though she was still excluded from the public ordinances
of religion [[Leviticus 12:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/4)].

**6-8. the days of her
purifying**—Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet
the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt
offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent
with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited
a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the
day after the period of her separation had ended—that is,
forty-first for a boy, eighty-first for a girl.

**8. bring two turtles,** &c.—(See
on [Leviticus 5:6](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/6)). This was the offering
made by Mary, the mother of Jesus, and it affords an incontestable
proof of the poor and humble condition of the family ([Leviticus 5:6](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/6)).

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