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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
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: 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...
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,...