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Leviticus 12:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Washing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Woman;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Leviticus;   Mother;   Purity-Purification;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Children;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joseph, Husband of Mary;   Law in the New Testament;   Leviticus;   Sanctuary;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Birth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses
Complete Jewish Bible
[In regular years read with Parashah 28, in leap years read separately] Adonai said to Moshe,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses,
English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses and said to him,
Good News Translation
The Lord gave Moses the following regulations
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE talked with Moses, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises, `and seide, Speke thou to the sones of Israel,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
Luke 2:22-24">[xr] Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New Living Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Tell the People of Israel, A woman who conceives and gives birth to a boy is ritually unclean for seven days, the same as during her menstruation. On the eighth day circumcise the boy. The mother must stay home another thirty-three days for purification from her bleeding. She may not touch anything consecrated or enter the Sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete. If she gives birth to a girl, she is unclean for fourteen days, the same as during her menstruation. She must stay home for sixty-six days for purification from her bleeding.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives seed, and bears a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her menstrual impurity she shall be unclean. 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 And she shall continue in the blood of [her] purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled. 5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of [her] purifying threescore and six days.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:3 - the uncleanness Leviticus 7:21 - the uncleanness Numbers 18:20 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing;
Genesis 12:3
and I will bless those that bless you, and him that curses you I will curse: and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was intense in the land.
Genesis 12:11
And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Now see, I know that you are a fair woman to look at:
Genesis 15:7
And he said to him, I am Yahweh that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.
Nehemiah 9:7
You are Yahweh the God, who chose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
Isaiah 41:9
you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said to you, You are my slave, I have chosen you and not cast you away;
Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, those that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land was given to us for inheritance.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... The laws in the preceding chapter were delivered both to Moses and Aaron, but what follows in this only to Moses; but inasmuch as the priest had a concern in it, it being his business to offer the sacrifices required by the following law, it was no doubt given to Moses, to be delivered to Aaron, as well as to the people. R. Semlai remarks, that as the creation of man was after that of the beasts, fowls, fishes, &c. so the laws concerning the uncleanness of men are after those relating to beasts, &c, and they begin with the uncleanness of a new mother, because, as Aben Ezra observes, the birth is the beginning of man:

saying: as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This chapter would more naturally follow the 15th chapter of Leviticus. See the note to Leviticus 15:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XII

Ordinances concerning the purification of women after

child-birth, 1;

after the birth of a son, who is to be circumcised the eighth

day, 2, 3.

The mother to be considered unclean for forty days, 4.

After the birth of a daughter, fourscore days, 5.

When the days of her purifying were ended, she was to bring a

lamb for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove

for a sin-offering, 6, 7.

If poor, and not able to bring a lamb, she was to bring either

two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, 8.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII


 
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