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She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. <a href="/nlt/leviticus/12.htm">New Living Translation</a> After waiting thirty-three days, she will be purified from the bleeding of childbirth. During this time of purification, she must not touch anything that is set apart as holy. And she must not enter the sanctuary until her time of purification is over. <a href="/esv/leviticus/12.htm">English Standard Version</a> Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. <a href="/bsb/leviticus/12.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete. <a href="/kjv/leviticus/12.htm">King James Bible</a> And she shall then 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 be fulfilled. <a href="/nkjv/leviticus/12.htm">New King James Version</a> She shall then continue in the blood of her purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled. <a href="/nasb_/leviticus/12.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> And she shall stay at home in her condition of blood purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. <a href="/nasb/leviticus/12.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. <a href="/nasb77/leviticus/12.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary, until the days of her purification are completed. <a href="/lsb/leviticus/12.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any holy thing; and she shall not enter the sanctuary until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled. <a href="/amp/leviticus/12.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Then she shall remain [intimately separated] thirty-three days to be purified from the blood; she shall not touch any consecrated thing nor enter the [courtyard of the] sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. <a href="/csb/leviticus/12.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> She will continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification. <a href="/hcsb/leviticus/12.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 33 days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification. <a href="/asv/leviticus/12.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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 be fulfilled. <a href="/cev/leviticus/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> but her loss of blood keeps her from being completely clean for another 33 days. During this time she must not touch anything holy or go to the place of worship. <a href="/erv/leviticus/12.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 be fulfilled. <a href="/gwt/leviticus/12.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Then she must stay at home for 33 days in order to be made clean from her bleeding. She must not touch anything holy or go into the holy place until the days needed to make her clean are over. <a href="/gnt/leviticus/12.htm">Good News Translation</a> Then it will be thirty-three more days until she is ritually clean from her loss of blood; she must not touch anything that is holy or enter the sacred Tent until the time of her purification is completed. <a href="/isv/leviticus/12.htm">International Standard Version</a> For 33 days after this, she is to remain in purification due to her blood loss. She is not to touch any sacred thing or enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification have been completed. <a href="/msb/leviticus/12.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete. <a href="/net/leviticus/12.htm">NET Bible</a> Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled. <a href="/nheb/leviticus/12.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. <a href="/wbt/leviticus/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And she shall then 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 be fulfilled. <a href="/web/leviticus/12.htm">World English Bible</a> She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/leviticus/12.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and she abides in the blood of her cleansing [for] thirty-three days; she does not come against any holy thing, and she does not go into the sanctuary, until the fullness of the days of her cleansing. <a href="/ylt/leviticus/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and thirty and three days she doth abide in the blood of her cleansing; against any holy thing she doth not come, and unto the sanctuary she doth not go in, till the fulness of the days of her cleansing. <a href="/slt/leviticus/12.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And thirty days and three days, she shall sit down in the blood of purification: she shall not touch upon any holy thing, and into the holy place she shall not come till the completing of the days of her purification.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/leviticus/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing, neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled. <a href="/cpdv/leviticus/12.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Yet truly, she herself shall remain for thirty-three days in the blood of her purification. She shall not touch anything holy, nor shall she enter into the Sanctuary, until the days of her purification are completed. <a href="/nabre/leviticus/12.htm">New American Bible</a> and then she shall spend thirty-three days more in a state of blood purity; she shall not touch anything sacred nor enter the sanctuary till the days of her purification are fulfilled. <a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Her time of blood purification shall be thirty-three days; she shall not touch any holy thing, or come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification are completed.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/12.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. <a href="/hpbt/leviticus/12.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And thirty and three days she shall stay for the blood cleansing and she shall not touch any holiness and she shall not enter the holy place until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/leviticus/12.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled. <a href="/sep/leviticus/12.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And for thirty-three days she shall continue in her unclean blood; she shall touch nothing holy, and shall not enter the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled. <a href="/parallel/leviticus/12-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=2789" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/leviticus/12.htm">Purification after Childbirth</a> …3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised. 4<a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: tê·šêḇ (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">The woman shall continue</a> <a href="/hebrew/2893.htm" title="2893: ṭā·ho·rāh (N-fs) -- Purifying, cleansing. Feminine of tohar; ceremonial purification; moral purity.">in purification</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: biḏ·mê (Prep-b:: N-mpc) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">from her bleeding</a> <a href="/hebrew/7970.htm" title="7970: ū·šə·lō·šîm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Thirty. Or shloshiym; multiple of shalowsh; thirty; or thirtieth.">for thirty-three</a> <a href="/hebrew/7969.htm" title="7969: ū·šə·lō·šeṯ (Conj-w:: Number-msc) -- A three, triad. Or shalosh; masculine shlowshah; or shloshah; a primitive number; three; occasionally third, or Thrice."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yā·mîm (N-mp) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">She must not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5060.htm" title="5060: ṯig·gā‘ (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. Lay the hand upon; by implication, to reach; violently, to strike.">touch</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵāl (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">anything</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qō·ḏeš (N-ms) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">sacred</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: ṯā·ḇō (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">or go</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">into</a> <a href="/hebrew/4720.htm" title="4720: ham·miq·dāš (Art:: N-ms) -- A sacred place, sanctuary. Or miqqdash; from qadash; a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary or asylum.">the sanctuary</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yə·mê (N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">the days</a> <a href="/hebrew/2893.htm" title="2893: ṭā·ho·rāh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- Purifying, cleansing. Feminine of tohar; ceremonial purification; moral purity.">of her purification</a> <a href="/hebrew/4390.htm" title="4390: mə·lōṯ (V-Qal-Inf) -- To be full, to fill. Or malae; a primitive root, to fill or be full of, in a wide application.">are complete.</a> 5If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/luke/2-22.htm">Luke 2:22-24</a> And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord / (as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”), / and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.” <a href="/exodus/13-2.htm">Exodus 13:2</a> “Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.” <a href="/numbers/18-15.htm">Numbers 18:15-16</a> The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals. / You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs. <a href="/galatians/4-4.htm">Galatians 4:4</a> But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, <a href="/hebrews/10-1.htm">Hebrews 10:1-4</a> For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. / If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins. / Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, ... <a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Leviticus 15:19-30</a> When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. / Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean, / and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening. ... <a href="/luke/2-21.htm">Luke 2:21</a> When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived. <a href="/exodus/22-29.htm">Exodus 22:29-30</a> You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons. / You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me. <a href="/leviticus/15-31.htm">Leviticus 15:31</a> You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. <a href="/numbers/6-10.htm">Numbers 6:10-12</a> On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. / And the priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him, because he has sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. On that day he must consecrate his head again. / He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled. <a href="/hebrews/9-13.htm">Hebrews 9:13-14</a> For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, / how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God! <a href="/leviticus/14-8.htm">Leviticus 14:8-9</a> The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days. / On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean. <a href="/romans/8-3.htm">Romans 8:3-4</a> For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh, / so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. <a href="/leviticus/5-2.htm">Leviticus 5:2-3</a> Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty. / Or if he touches human uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty. <a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">Colossians 2:16-17</a> Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. / These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And she shall then 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 be fulfilled.<a href="/leviticus/15-25.htm">Leviticus 15:25-28</a> And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean… <a href="/haggai/2-13.htm">Haggai 2:13</a> Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.<a href="/luke/2-22.htm">Luke 2:22,23</a> And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/8-35.htm">Abide</a> <a href="/leviticus/10-18.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-47.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-33.htm">Completed</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-33.htm">Consecrated</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-35.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/exodus/40-35.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-33.htm">Fulfilled</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-33.htm">Fulness</a> <a href="/leviticus/10-3.htm">Hallowed</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-45.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-7.htm">Making</a> <a href="/exodus/29-36.htm">Purification</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-15.htm">Purified</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-13.htm">Purifying</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-9.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/leviticus/10-18.htm">Sanctuary</a> <a href="/exodus/38-24.htm">Thirty</a> <a href="/exodus/6-18.htm">Thirty-Three</a> <a href="/exodus/38-26.htm">Three</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-31.htm">Touch</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-8.htm">Touched</a> <a href="/exodus/24-14.htm">Wait</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/19-13.htm">Abide</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Completed</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-32.htm">Consecrated</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-8.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Fulfilled</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-12.htm">Fulness</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-8.htm">Hallowed</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-13.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-11.htm">Making</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Purification</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Purified</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Purifying</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-32.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-13.htm">Sanctuary</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-4.htm">Thirty</a> <a href="/2_samuel/5-5.htm">Thirty-Three</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-10.htm">Three</a> <a href="/numbers/4-15.htm">Touch</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-12.htm">Touched</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">Wait</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 12</div>1. <a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm">The purification of a woman after childbirth</a> 6. <a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Her offerings for her purifying</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/leviticus/12.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/leviticus/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/leviticus/12.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. In the context of ancient Israel, childbirth was considered a significant event that required a period of purification. The number thirty-three is specific to the birth of a male child, as outlined in <a href="/leviticus/12.htm">Leviticus 12</a>. This period of purification reflects the cultural and religious practices of the time, emphasizing the importance of ritual cleanliness. The number thirty-three may symbolize completeness and order, as seen in other biblical contexts. This purification process underscores the holiness required to approach God, highlighting the separation between the sacred and the profane. It also points to the need for spiritual cleansing, a theme that is fulfilled in the New Testament through the atoning work of Jesus Christ, who provides ultimate purification from sin.She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete. This restriction emphasizes the sanctity of the sacred objects and spaces within the Israelite community. The prohibition against touching sacred things or entering the sanctuary underscores the holiness of God and the need for purity when approaching Him. This separation serves as a reminder of the consequences of sin and the need for atonement. The sanctuary, being the dwelling place of God's presence, required those who entered to be ceremonially clean. This regulation foreshadows the New Testament teaching that believers are temples of the Holy Spirit, called to live lives of holiness. It also points to Jesus Christ, who, through His sacrifice, grants believers access to God, breaking down the barriers of impurity and sin.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_woman.htm">The Woman</a> Refers to a mother who has given birth, undergoing a period of purification as prescribed by the Mosaic Law. 2. <a href="/topical/p/purification.htm">Purification</a> A ceremonial process required by the Law of Moses for a woman after childbirth, emphasizing ritual cleanliness. 3. <a href="/topical/t/thirty-three_days.htm">Thirty-three Days</a> The specific duration of the purification period following the birth of a male child. 4. <a href="/topical/h/holy_things.htm">Holy Things</a> Sacred objects or offerings that the woman must not touch during her purification period. 5. <a href="/topical/s/sanctuary.htm">Sanctuary</a> The sacred space where God's presence dwells, which the woman is prohibited from entering until her purification is complete.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_ritual_purity.htm">Understanding Ritual Purity</a> The laws of purification underscore the importance of holiness and separation from sin in the life of God's people. <a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_cleansing.htm">Symbolism of Cleansing</a> The purification process symbolizes the need for spiritual cleansing and preparation to enter God's presence. <a href="/topical/r/respect_for_god's_holiness.htm">Respect for God's Holiness</a> The restrictions placed on the woman emphasize the reverence required when approaching holy things and spaces. <a href="/topical/c/christ's_fulfillment_of_the_law.htm">Christ's Fulfillment of the Law</a> Jesus' life and sacrifice fulfill the requirements of the Law, offering believers a deeper, spiritual purification. <a href="/topical/a/application_to_modern_life.htm">Application to Modern Life</a> While the specific rituals are not required today, the principles of purity, holiness, and reverence for God remain relevant.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_12.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 12</a> <a href="/q/why_is_childbirth_'unclean'_in_leviticus.htm">In Leviticus 12:2, why does the text declare a mother 'unclean' immediately after childbirth if bearing children was divinely mandated (Genesis 1:28)?</a> <a href="/q/why_is_purification_longer_for_daughters.htm">Why does Leviticus 12:5 require a longer period of purification for a daughter than for a son, and how is this disparity justified?</a> <a href="/q/why_is_leviticus_12_6-7_still_relevant.htm">Given that other Old Testament laws have been revised or replaced, why does Leviticus 12:6-7 still treat normal biological processes as sources of impurity?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_lev_12_8_reconcile_childbirth.htm">In Leviticus 12:8, how does the prescribed offering for atonement reconcile with the idea that childbirth is not a moral wrongdoing?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/12.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4) Continue in the blood of her purifying.--Better, continue in the blood of purification, that is, pure blood. Though the discharge consequent upon the birth ceases after two or three weeks, the period in this case, as in the former instance, is nearly doubled, to include exceptional cases. During these thirty-three days, which constituted the second stage, the mother was only debarred from touching holy things, such as first tithes, the flesh of thank- and peace-offerings, &c, and from entering the sanctuary. Having bathed at the end of the seven days which constituted the first and defiling period, she could now partake of the second tithes, and resume conjugal intercourse, since any blood that might now appear was regarded as pure blood, in contradistinction to the (dam nidah) blood of monthly courses. Her proximity, therefore, no longer defiled. The Sadducees and the Samaritans during the second Temple, and their followers, the Karaite Jews, interpreted this law more rigidly. Though admitting that there is a difference of degree in the two periods, they maintained that the woman was too unclean for conjugal intercourse even during the second period. They therefore pointed the text differently so as to yield the rendering "blood of her purifying." The Authorised Version, which, in this instance, follows the opinion of the Sadducees, departs from the received text. <a href="/commentaries/leviticus/12-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>The woman shall continue תֵּשֵׁ֖ב (tê·šêḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry in purification טָהֳרָ֑ה (ṭā·ho·rāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2893.htm">Strong's 2893: </a> Ceremonial purification, moral purity from her bleeding בִּדְמֵ֣י (biḏ·mê) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed for thirty-three וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים (ū·šə·lō·šîm) Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7970.htm">Strong's 7970: </a> Thirty, thirtieth days. יוֹם֙ (yō·wm) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day She must not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no touch תִגָּ֗ע (ṯig·gā‘) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5060.htm">Strong's 5060: </a> To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike anything בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every sacred קֹ֣דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity or go תָבֹ֔א (ṯā·ḇō) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go into וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the sanctuary הַמִּקְדָּשׁ֙ (ham·miq·dāš) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4720.htm">Strong's 4720: </a> A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylum until עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the days יְמֵ֥י (yə·mê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of her purification טָהֳרָֽהּ׃ (ṭā·ho·rāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2893.htm">Strong's 2893: </a> Ceremonial purification, moral purity are complete. מְלֹ֖את (mə·lōṯ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4390.htm">Strong's 4390: </a> To fill, be full of <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/leviticus/12-4.htm">Leviticus 12:4 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 12:4 She shall continue in the blood (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 12:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 12:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 12:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 12:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>