6“ ‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.7He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “ ‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
8If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’ ”
6 “ ‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.
7 He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “ ‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’ ”
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6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
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6 And when the days of her purification are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest.
7 And he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.
8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
Leviticus 5:7(v8)“ ‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young…
Leviticus 4:26(vv7–8)All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him…
Luke 2:22(v6)When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the…
Leviticus 14:22(vv6, 8)and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt…
Leviticus 15:29(vv6, 8)On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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Leviticus 1:14(v8)“ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.
Luke 2:22-24(v8)When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the…
John 1:29(v6)The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
2 Corinthians 5:21(v6)For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Peter 1:18-19(v6)knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your…
Leviticus 15:14(vv6, 8)“ ‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and…
Leviticus 1:4(v7)He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Leviticus 1:10-13(v6)“ ‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect. He…
Leviticus 4:20(v7)Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement…
Leviticus 4:31(v7)All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar…
Leviticus 4:35(v7)He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the…
Leviticus 5:6-10(v6)and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin…
Leviticus 12:2(v6)“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the…
Leviticus 15:28-30(v7)“ ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. On the eighth…
Numbers 6:10(v6)On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Job 1:5(v7)It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and…
Job 14:4(v7)Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Romans 3:23(v7)for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:26(v7)to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
1 Corinthians 7:14(v7)For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would…
2 Corinthians 8:9(v8)For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty…
Galatians 3:28(v7)There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 7:26(v6)For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Hebrews 9:12-14(v7)nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8Where the burnt offerings were wont to be offered.
Where the burnt offerings were wont to be offered.
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Lev 12:6 And when the days of her purifying…
Lev 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
Ver. 6. And when the days of her purifying.] The Virgin Mary also observed this law, {Luk 2:21} not in conscience of any particular sin, which in the conception of our Saviour she was free from; nor in show, to satisfy the law, much less upon hypocrisy; but in conscience of her natural corruption, which by this oblation, according to the law, she did confess holily and religiously before God and his congregation, as one well observeth.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv6–7For a son, or for a daughter; for the…
For a son, or for a daughter; for the birth of a son, or of a daughter; but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses.
For a sin-offering; either because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation; or for those particular sins relating to the time and state of child-bearing, of which she is justly presumed to be guilty, which might be many ways.
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Matthew Henry1710 · Public DomainOn v6A woman that had lain in, when the time…
A woman that had lain in, when the time set for her return to the sanctuary had come, was not to attend there empty, but must bring her offerings, Lev 12:6. 1. A burnt-offering; a lamb if she was able, if poor, a pigeon. This she was to offer in thankfulness to God for his mercy to her, in bringing her safely through the pains of child-bearing and all the perils of child-bed, and in desire and hopes of God's further favour both to her and to the child. When a child is born there is joy and there is hope, and therefore it was proper to bring this offering, which was of a general nature; for what we rejoice in we must give thanks for, and what we are in hopes of we must pray for. But, besides this, 2. She must offer a sin-offering, which must be the same for poor and rich, a turtle-dove or a young pigeon; for, whatever difference there may be between rich and poor in the sacrifices of acknowledgment, that of atonement is the same for both. This sin-offering was intended either, (1.) To complete her purification from that ceremonial uncleanness which, though it was not in itself sinful, yet was typical of moral pollution; or, (2.) To make atonement for that which was really sin, either an inordinate desire of the blessing of children or discontent or impatience under the pains of child-bearing. It is only by Christ, the great sin-offering, that the corruption of our nature is done away, and to that it is owing that we are not for ever excluded by it from the sanctuary, and from eating of the holy things. According to this law, we find that the mother of our blessed Lord, though he was not conceived in sin as others, yet accomplished the days of purification, and then presented her son to the Lord, being a first-born, and brought her own offering, a pair of turtle-doves, Luk 2:22-24. So poor were Christ's parents that they were not able to bring a lamb for a burnt-offering; and so early was Christ made under the law, to redeem those that were under it. The morality of this law obliges those women that have received mercy from God in child-bearing with all thankfulness to own God's goodness to them, acknowledging themselves unworthy of it, and (which is the best purification of women that have been saved in child-bearing, Ti1 2:15) to continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety; for this shall please the Lord better than the turtle-doves or the young pigeons.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv6–7Who shall offer it before the Lord,.... Upon the…
Who shall offer it before the Lord,.... Upon the altar of burnt offering:
and make an atonement for her; for whatsoever sin in connection with or that attended childbearing; as typical of the atonement by Christ both for sin original and actual:
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and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood; in a ceremonial sense, and according to that law be pure and clean:
this is the law for her that hath born a male or a female; enjoined her, and to be observed by her; and though now with the rest of the ceremonial law it is abolished, yet it has this instruction in it; that it becomes women in such circumstances to bring the freewill offerings of their lips, their sacrifices of praise, and in a public manner signify their gratitude and thankfulness for the mercy and goodness of God vouchsafed to them, in carrying them through the whole time of childbearing, and saving them in the perilous hour.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8For a son or a daughter - For the…
For a son or a daughter - For the birth of a son, or of a daughter: but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses. A sin-offering - Because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation.
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Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8Verse 6. When the days of her purifying] It…
Verse 6. When the days of her purifying] It is not easy to account for the difference in the times of purification, after the birth of a male and female child. After the birth of a boy the mother was considered unclean for forty days; after the birth of a girl, four-score days. There is probably no physical reason for this difference, and it is difficult to assign a political one. Some of the ancient physicians assert that a woman is in the order of nature much longer in completely recovering after the birth of a female than after the birth of a male child. This assertion is not justified either by observation or matter of fact. Others think that the difference in the time of purification after the birth of a male and female is intended to mark the inferiority of the female sex. This is a miserable reason, and pitifully supported.
She shall bring - a burnt-offering, and - a sin-offering] It is likely that all these ordinances were intended to show man's natural impurity and original defilement by sin, and the necessity of an atonement to cleanse the soul from unrighteousness.
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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8Lev 12:6. For a son or a daughter —…
Lev 12:6. For a son or a daughter — For the birth of either; but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses. A sin- offering — Because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn v6The sacrificial act expressed an acknowledgment of sin and…
The sacrificial act expressed an acknowledgment of sin and a dedication of herself to Yahweh. See Lev 8:14.
Lev 12:6
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Of the first year - literally, as in the margin, “a son of his year.” This expression is supposed to mean one less than a year old, while the “son of a year” is one that has just completed its first year.
Lev 12:8
A lamb - Rather, one of the flock; either a sheep or a goat; it is not the same word as in Lev 12:6.
Two turtles, or two young pigeons - See the note at Lev 1:14. The Virgin Mary availed herself of the liberty which the Law allowed to the poor, and offered the inferior burnt-offering Luk 2:24.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn vv6–8Lamb, to thank God for her happy delivery. ---…
Lamb, to thank God for her happy delivery. --- Sin, or uncleanness, which was esteemed a legal offence. Perhaps this sacrifice was also designed to expiate the sins she might have fallen into, (Menochius) since she was last able to offer one; and likewise the original sin of her female offspring. That of males was effaced by circumcision. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8the days of her purifying--Though the occasion was of…
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.
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv6–86. Burnt offering — Although the self-dedicatory offering is…
6. Burnt offering — Although the self-dedicatory offering is mentioned first, the real order is after the sin offering, see Introduction, (5.) We are not to suppose that a sense of guilt was in the mind of the offerer, but only the fact of ceremonial impurity, which required purgation before the woman could be an accepted worshipper. Hence the smallest of the sin offerings was required. Yet this requirement of both mother and child teaches the doctrine of original, or birth sin. On the fortieth day after his birth Jesus, in his sinless humanity, was presented at the earthly temple; on the fortieth day after his resurrection he was presented in his glorified body in the heavenly sanctuary.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv6, 86. At the end of her purification she was…
6. At the end of her purification she was to bring an offering. The alternative of a pigeon for the lamb of the Burnt-Offering is allowed in Lev_1:14 and also in the Sin-Offering (Lev_5:7-10), but the further alternative of a Meal-Offering (Lev_5:11-13) is not found here. The Virgin Mary (Luk_2:24) offered the sacrifices of one whose ‘means suffice not for a lamb.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv6–8(6) And when the days . . . —Having…
(6) And when the days . . . —Having described in the previous verses the conditions of defilement arising from childbirth, the legislator now prescribes the offerings to be brought for the purification of the woman. The offerings were brought at the expiration of the fortieth day in the case of a boy, and at the end of the eightieth day in the case of a girl, that is, on the forty-first and on the eighty-first respectively.
For a son, or for a daughter.—That is, with regard to a son or a daughter, to either of which she had given birth. The purification was for herself, and was owing to the defiling discharges connected with childbirth, and not for the child to which she gave birth, since the baby was not unclean.
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She shall bring a lamb of the first year.—Or, as the Margin has it, a son of his year, that is, a lamb which was within the year of its birth. This burnt offering was an expression of gratitude for the Divine mercy vouchsafed to her in the hours of sorrow and danger, or, as some ancients suggest, it was designed as a confession of impatient and reproachful thoughts harboured by the mother during her pregnancy and the time of parturition (comp. Gen_25:22); whilst the sin offering was to atone for sinful and violent expressions which she may have heedlessly uttered in the hours of labour and agony. Though when the two sacrifices are mentioned together, the sin offering generally precedes the burnt offering (see Lev_5:7; Lev_14:31; Lev_15:15; Lev_15:30; Lev_16:3; Lev_16:5, &c.), here the burnt offering takes precedence, because it is the more costly of the two. Besides the mother after child-birth (Lev_12:6; Lev_12:8), there were three other unclean persons who had to bring a sin offering for their uncleanness: the leper (Lev_14:19; Lev_14:31), the woman that had an issue (Lev_15:15), and the man that had an issue (Lev_15:30).
Unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.—Better, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. (See Lev_1:3.) During the time of the second Temple these sacrifices were brought to the eastern gate, called the Gate of Nicanor. Here the lying-in women were purified and the lepers cleansed. (See Lev_14:13.)
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8Vers. 6, 7. The previous verses having stated the…
Vers. 6, 7. The previous verses having stated the conditions and the term of continuance of the uncleanness arising from childbirth, the three final verses describe the offerings to be made by the woman for her purification. She shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering. Two things are noticeable here: first, that the burnt offering, symbolizing self-devotion, is far more costly and important than the sin offering, which had not to be offered for any individual personal sin, but only for human sin, "which had been indirectly manifested in her bodily condition" (Keil); and secondly, that in this one case the sin offering appears to succeed the burnt offering instead of preceding it. No doubt the changed order is owing to the cause just mentioned; the idea of sin, though it may not be altogether put aside, (Gen_3:16) is not to be prominent, as though it were peculiar to the special woman who was purified.
Generation, conception, and birth, not having anything sinful necessarily connected with them, the sin offering in this case is rather an intimation of original sin than an atonement for actual sin; the "sorrow" attached to childbirth being especially connected with the fall of man as a result of Eve"s share in bringing it about. (Gen_3:16) There is nothing in the Bible to countenance ascetic or Manichaean views of marriage intercourse. Where any prohibitory injunctions are given on the subject, the purpose is to avoid ceremonial, not moral, uncleanness. (Exo_19:15 1Sa_21:4; cf. Lev_15:18)
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C. I. Scofield1917 · Public DomainOn v7(See Scofield "Exo 29:33").
atonement
(See Scofield "Exo 29:33").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv6–7When the days of her purification are finished
When the days of her purification are finished
"When the days of the mother's purification are finished"
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for a son or for a daughter
This refers to the different number of days for purification based on if she gave birth to a son or daughter.
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv6–812:6 purification offering: The Hebrew word is the same…
12:6 purification offering: The Hebrew word is the same as that for the sin offering (khatta’t, see study note on 4:1–5:13). This leads some scholars to think that this offering dealt only with purification or decontamination, including those cases mentioned in 5:1-6. The offering here was certainly part of a purification ritual, but it seems more likely that the sin offering repaired a lack or failure. In this context, the issue is purity rather than sin, and the focus is on restoring the woman to community fellowship, not forgiving a sinner.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Where the burnt offerings were wont to be offered.
Where the burnt offerings were wont to be offered.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Lev 12:6 And when the days of her purifying…
Lev 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
Ver. 6. And when the days of her purifying.] The Virgin Mary also observed this law, {Luk 2:21} not in conscience of any particular sin, which in the conception of our Saviour she was free from; nor in show, to satisfy the law, much less upon hypocrisy; but in conscience of her natural corruption, which by this oblation, according to the law, she did confess holily and religiously before God and his congregation, as one well observeth.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv6–7 For a son, or for a daughter; for the…
For a son, or for a daughter; for the birth of a son, or of a daughter; but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses.
For a sin-offering; either because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation; or for those particular sins relating to the time and state of child-bearing, of which she is justly presumed to be guilty, which might be many ways.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v6 A woman that had lain in, when the time…
A woman that had lain in, when the time set for her return to the sanctuary had come, was not to attend there empty, but must bring her offerings, Lev 12:6. 1. A burnt-offering; a lamb if she was able, if poor, a pigeon. This she was to offer in thankfulness to God for his mercy to her, in bringing her safely through the pains of child-bearing and all the perils of child-bed, and in desire and hopes of God's further favour both to her and to the child. When a child is born there is joy and there is hope, and therefore it was proper to bring this offering, which was of a general nature; for what we rejoice in we must give thanks for, and what we are in hopes of we must pray for. But, besides this, 2. She must offer a sin-offering, which must be the same for poor and rich, a turtle-dove or a young pigeon; for, whatever difference there may be between rich and poor in the sacrifices of acknowledgment, that of atonement is the same for both. This sin-offering was intended either, (1.) To complete her purification from that ceremonial uncleanness which, though it was not in itself sinful, yet was typical of moral pollution; or, (2.) To make atonement for that which was really sin, either an inordinate desire of the blessing of children or discontent or impatience under the pains of child-bearing. It is only by Christ, the great sin-offering, that the corruption of our nature is done away, and to that it is owing that we are not for ever excluded by it from the sanctuary, and from eating of the holy things. According to this law, we find that the mother of our blessed Lord, though he was not conceived in sin as others, yet accomplished the days of purification, and then presented her son to the Lord, being a first-born, and brought her own offering, a pair of turtle-doves, Luk 2:22-24. So poor were Christ's parents that they were not able to bring a lamb for a burnt-offering; and so early was Christ made under the law, to redeem those that were under it. The morality of this law obliges those women that have received mercy from God in child-bearing with all thankfulness to own God's goodness to them, acknowledging themselves unworthy of it, and (which is the best purification of women that have been saved in child-bearing, Ti1 2:15) to continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety; for this shall please the Lord better than the turtle-doves or the young pigeons.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Who shall offer it before the Lord,.... Upon the…
Who shall offer it before the Lord,.... Upon the altar of burnt offering:
and make an atonement for her; for whatsoever sin in connection with or that attended childbearing; as typical of the atonement by Christ both for sin original and actual:
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and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood; in a ceremonial sense, and according to that law be pure and clean:
this is the law for her that hath born a male or a female; enjoined her, and to be observed by her; and though now with the rest of the ceremonial law it is abolished, yet it has this instruction in it; that it becomes women in such circumstances to bring the freewill offerings of their lips, their sacrifices of praise, and in a public manner signify their gratitude and thankfulness for the mercy and goodness of God vouchsafed to them, in carrying them through the whole time of childbearing, and saving them in the perilous hour.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 For a son or a daughter - For the…
For a son or a daughter - For the birth of a son, or of a daughter: but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses. A sin-offering - Because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Verse 6. When the days of her purifying] It…
Verse 6. When the days of her purifying] It is not easy to account for the difference in the times of purification, after the birth of a male and female child. After the birth of a boy the mother was considered unclean for forty days; after the birth of a girl, four-score days. There is probably no physical reason for this difference, and it is difficult to assign a political one. Some of the ancient physicians assert that a woman is in the order of nature much longer in completely recovering after the birth of a female than after the birth of a male child. This assertion is not justified either by observation or matter of fact. Others think that the difference in the time of purification after the birth of a male and female is intended to mark the inferiority of the female sex. This is a miserable reason, and pitifully supported.
She shall bring - a burnt-offering, and - a sin-offering] It is likely that all these ordinances were intended to show man's natural impurity and original defilement by sin, and the necessity of an atonement to cleanse the soul from unrighteousness.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Lev 12:6. For a son or a daughter —…
Lev 12:6. For a son or a daughter — For the birth of either; but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses. A sin- offering — Because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v6 The sacrificial act expressed an acknowledgment of sin and…
The sacrificial act expressed an acknowledgment of sin and a dedication of herself to Yahweh. See Lev 8:14.
Lev 12:6
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Of the first year - literally, as in the margin, “a son of his year.” This expression is supposed to mean one less than a year old, while the “son of a year” is one that has just completed its first year.
Lev 12:8
A lamb - Rather, one of the flock; either a sheep or a goat; it is not the same word as in Lev 12:6.
Two turtles, or two young pigeons - See the note at Lev 1:14. The Virgin Mary availed herself of the liberty which the Law allowed to the poor, and offered the inferior burnt-offering Luk 2:24.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6–8 Lamb, to thank God for her happy delivery. ---…
Lamb, to thank God for her happy delivery. --- Sin, or uncleanness, which was esteemed a legal offence. Perhaps this sacrifice was also designed to expiate the sins she might have fallen into, (Menochius) since she was last able to offer one; and likewise the original sin of her female offspring. That of males was effaced by circumcision. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 the days of her purifying--Though the occasion was of…
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.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv6–8 6. Burnt offering — Although the self-dedicatory offering is…
6. Burnt offering — Although the self-dedicatory offering is mentioned first, the real order is after the sin offering, see Introduction, (5.) We are not to suppose that a sense of guilt was in the mind of the offerer, but only the fact of ceremonial impurity, which required purgation before the woman could be an accepted worshipper. Hence the smallest of the sin offerings was required. Yet this requirement of both mother and child teaches the doctrine of original, or birth sin. On the fortieth day after his birth Jesus, in his sinless humanity, was presented at the earthly temple; on the fortieth day after his resurrection he was presented in his glorified body in the heavenly sanctuary.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 6. At the end of her purification she was…
6. At the end of her purification she was to bring an offering. The alternative of a pigeon for the lamb of the Burnt-Offering is allowed in Lev_1:14 and also in the Sin-Offering (Lev_5:7-10), but the further alternative of a Meal-Offering (Lev_5:11-13) is not found here. The Virgin Mary (Luk_2:24) offered the sacrifices of one whose ‘means suffice not for a lamb.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–8 (6) And when the days . . . —Having…
(6) And when the days . . . —Having described in the previous verses the conditions of defilement arising from childbirth, the legislator now prescribes the offerings to be brought for the purification of the woman. The offerings were brought at the expiration of the fortieth day in the case of a boy, and at the end of the eightieth day in the case of a girl, that is, on the forty-first and on the eighty-first respectively.
For a son, or for a daughter.—That is, with regard to a son or a daughter, to either of which she had given birth. The purification was for herself, and was owing to the defiling discharges connected with childbirth, and not for the child to which she gave birth, since the baby was not unclean.
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She shall bring a lamb of the first year.—Or, as the Margin has it, a son of his year, that is, a lamb which was within the year of its birth. This burnt offering was an expression of gratitude for the Divine mercy vouchsafed to her in the hours of sorrow and danger, or, as some ancients suggest, it was designed as a confession of impatient and reproachful thoughts harboured by the mother during her pregnancy and the time of parturition (comp. Gen_25:22); whilst the sin offering was to atone for sinful and violent expressions which she may have heedlessly uttered in the hours of labour and agony. Though when the two sacrifices are mentioned together, the sin offering generally precedes the burnt offering (see Lev_5:7; Lev_14:31; Lev_15:15; Lev_15:30; Lev_16:3; Lev_16:5, &c.), here the burnt offering takes precedence, because it is the more costly of the two. Besides the mother after child-birth (Lev_12:6; Lev_12:8), there were three other unclean persons who had to bring a sin offering for their uncleanness: the leper (Lev_14:19; Lev_14:31), the woman that had an issue (Lev_15:15), and the man that had an issue (Lev_15:30).
Unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.—Better, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. (See Lev_1:3.) During the time of the second Temple these sacrifices were brought to the eastern gate, called the Gate of Nicanor. Here the lying-in women were purified and the lepers cleansed. (See Lev_14:13.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv6, 8 Vers. 6, 7. The previous verses having stated the…
Vers. 6, 7. The previous verses having stated the conditions and the term of continuance of the uncleanness arising from childbirth, the three final verses describe the offerings to be made by the woman for her purification. She shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering. Two things are noticeable here: first, that the burnt offering, symbolizing self-devotion, is far more costly and important than the sin offering, which had not to be offered for any individual personal sin, but only for human sin, "which had been indirectly manifested in her bodily condition" (Keil); and secondly, that in this one case the sin offering appears to succeed the burnt offering instead of preceding it. No doubt the changed order is owing to the cause just mentioned; the idea of sin, though it may not be altogether put aside, (Gen_3:16) is not to be prominent, as though it were peculiar to the special woman who was purified.
Generation, conception, and birth, not having anything sinful necessarily connected with them, the sin offering in this case is rather an intimation of original sin than an atonement for actual sin; the "sorrow" attached to childbirth being especially connected with the fall of man as a result of Eve"s share in bringing it about. (Gen_3:16) There is nothing in the Bible to countenance ascetic or Manichaean views of marriage intercourse. Where any prohibitory injunctions are given on the subject, the purpose is to avoid ceremonial, not moral, uncleanness. (Exo_19:15 1Sa_21:4; cf. Lev_15:18)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v7 (See Scofield "Exo 29:33").
atonement
(See Scofield "Exo 29:33").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv6–7 When the days of her purification are finished
When the days of her purification are finished
"When the days of the mother's purification are finished"
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for a son or for a daughter
This refers to the different number of days for purification based on if she gave birth to a son or daughter.
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pure
lamb
burnt offering
dove
sin offering
tent of meeting
priest
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv6–8 12:6 purification offering: The Hebrew word is the same…
12:6 purification offering: The Hebrew word is the same as that for the sin offering (khatta’t, see study note on 4:1–5:13). This leads some scholars to think that this offering dealt only with purification or decontamination, including those cases mentioned in 5:1-6. The offering here was certainly part of a purification ritual, but it seems more likely that the sin offering repaired a lack or failure. In this context, the issue is purity rather than sin, and the focus is on restoring the woman to community fellowship, not forgiving a sinner.
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