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Leviticus 12:1 open_in_new
spake. See note on Leviticus 5:14.
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Leviticus 12:2 open_in_new
children. Hebrew sons.
seven days. See note on Leviticus 12:5.
according to the days. Compare Leviticus 15:19.
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Leviticus 12:3 open_in_new
circumcised. See note on "leprosy", Leviticus 13:2.
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Leviticus 12:4 open_in_new
three and thirty. Half the period of maid child. See Leviticus 12:5 (7. 33. 40. See App-10).
hallowed. Hebrew. kadesh. See note on Exodus 3:5.
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Leviticus 12:5 open_in_new
purifying. purification, i.e. pure blood as distinct from the other.
threescore and six days. Double that after. man child. See 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.
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Leviticus 12:7 open_in_new
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.
make an atonement. See note on Exodus 29:33.
issue. fount [discharge].
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Leviticus 12:8 open_in_new
two turtles. See Luke 2:22; Luke 2:24, and compare 2 Corinthians 8:9.