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Commentaries on Leviticus 12:1

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Leviticus 12 This chapter treats of the purification of a new mother, the time of whose purification for a man child was forty days, and for a maid child eighty, Leviticus 12:1 at the close of which she was to bring her offerings to the priests, to make atonement for her, Leviticus 12:6.

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

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...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

After the laws concerning clean and unclean food come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons; and the first is in this chapter concerning the ceremonial uncleanness of women in child-birth, ver. 1-5. And concerning their purification from that uncleanness, ver. 6, &c. Ceremonial Purification. (b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel,...