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Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/leviticus/12.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />If a woman gives birth to a daughter, she will be ceremonially unclean for two weeks, just as she is unclean during her menstrual period. After waiting sixty-six days, she will be purified from the bleeding of childbirth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/12.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/12.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />If, 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/12.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/12.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />‘But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of <i>her</i> purification sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/12.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />But if she gives birth to a female <i>child,</i> then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall stay <i>at home</i> in <i>her condition of</i> blood purification for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/12.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/12.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘But if she bears a female <i>child</i>, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of <i>her</i> purification for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/12.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />But if she bears a female <i>child</i>, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of <i>her</i> cleansing for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/12.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly period, and she shall remain [intimately separated] sixty-six days to be purified from the blood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/12.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/12.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 66 days.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/12.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />But if she bear a maid-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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/leviticus/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Any woman who gives birth to a daughter is unclean for two weeks, just as she is during her period. And she won't be completely clean for another 66 days. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/12.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />But if she bear a maid 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/12.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"When a woman gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean as in her monthly period. However, she will be unclean for two weeks. Then she must stay at home for 66 days in order to be made clean from her bleeding.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />For fourteen days after a woman gives birth to a daughter, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period. Then it will be sixty-six more days until she is ritually clean from her loss of blood. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/12.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"If she gives birth to a female, then she is to remain unclean for two weeks, just like her menstruation. She is to remain in purification for 66 days due to her blood loss.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/12.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />If, 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/12.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/12.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But if she shall bear a female-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/12.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/12.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And if she bears a female, then she has been unclean [for] two weeks, as in her separation; and she abides by the blood of her cleansing [for] sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'And if a female she bear, then she hath been unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and sixty and six days she doth abide for the blood of her cleansing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/12.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And if she shall bear a female, and she was unclean two sevens, as her removal: and sixty days and six days she shall sit down upon the blood of her purification.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses, and she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/12.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />But if she will bear a female, she shall be unclean for two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly flow, and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />If she gives birth to a girl, for fourteen days she shall be as unclean as during her menstrual period, after which she shall spend sixty-six days in a state of blood purity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />If she bears a female child, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; her time of blood purification shall be sixty-six days.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/12.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/12.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And if she shall bear a female she will be defiled fourteen days according to her menstruation and she shall stay sixty and six days for the blood of cleansing.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/12.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/12.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />But if she should have born a female child, then she shall be unclean twice seven days, according to the time of her monthly courses; and for sixty-six days shall she remain in her unclean blood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/12-5.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=2802" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/12.htm">Purification after Childbirth</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">4</span>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. <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: wə·’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">If, however,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3205.htm" title="3205: ṯê·lêḏ (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- A primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage.">she gives birth to</a> <a href="/hebrew/5347.htm" title="5347: nə·qê·ḇāh (N-fs) -- A female. From naqab; female.">a daughter,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2930.htm" title="2930: wə·ṭā·mə·’āh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To be or become unclean. A primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense.">the woman will be unclean</a> <a href="/hebrew/7620.htm" title="7620: šə·ḇu·‘a·yim (N-md) -- Or shabuan; also shbu.ah; properly, passive participle of shaba' as a denominative of sheba'; literal, sevened, i.e. A week.">for two weeks</a> <a href="/hebrew/5079.htm" title="5079: kə·nid·dā·ṯāh (Prep-k:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Impurity. From nadad; properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal or moral.">as she is during her menstruation.</a> <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.">Then she must continue</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">in</a> <a href="/hebrew/2893.htm" title="2893: ṭā·ho·rāh (N-fs) -- Purifying, cleansing. Feminine of tohar; ceremonial purification; moral purity.">purification</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: də·mê (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/8346.htm" title="8346: wə·šiš·šîm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Sixty. Multiple of shesh; sixty.">for sixty-six</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."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8337.htm" title="8337: wə·šê·šeṯ (Conj-w:: Number-msc) -- Masculine shishshah; a primitive number; six (see suws) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. Sixth."></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.">days.</a> </span><span class="reftext">6</span>When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/2-22.htm">Luke 2:22-24</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/4-4.htm">Galatians 4:4</a></span><br />But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/17-12.htm">Genesis 17:12</a></span><br />Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/13-2.htm">Exodus 13:2</a></span><br />“Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/18-15.htm">Numbers 18:15-16</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/2-21.htm">Luke 2:21</a></span><br />When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Leviticus 15:19-30</a></span><br />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. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-1.htm">Hebrews 10:1-4</a></span><br />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, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/7-14.htm">Isaiah 7:14</a></span><br />Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/1-23.htm">Matthew 1:23</a></span><br />“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/22-29.htm">Exodus 22:29-30</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-3.htm">Romans 8:3-4</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/3-24.htm">Galatians 3:24-25</a></span><br />So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. / Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">Colossians 2:16-17</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/1-24.htm">1 Samuel 1:24-28</a></span><br />Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. / And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli. / “Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three score and six days.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Leviticus 12:2,4</a></b></br> Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/3-13.htm">Genesis 3:13</a></b></br> And the LORD God said unto the woman, What <i>is</i> this <i>that</i> thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_timothy/2-14.htm">1 Timothy 2:14,15</a></b></br> And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Bears</a> <a href="/exodus/34-19.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Child</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-9.htm">Cleansing</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-26.htm">Completely</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/exodus/21-31.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-16.htm">Female</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Impurity</a> <a href="/exodus/22-16.htm">Maid</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-26.htm">Menstruation</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Period</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">Purification</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">Purified</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">Purifying</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Separation</a> <a href="/exodus/38-26.htm">Six</a> <a href="/genesis/46-26.htm">Sixty</a> <a href="/genesis/46-26.htm">Sixty-Six</a> <a href="/exodus/38-25.htm">Threescore</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Unwell</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">Weeks</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/16-22.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm">Bears</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-29.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm">Child</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-7.htm">Cleansing</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-9.htm">Completely</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm">Female</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-7.htm">Gives</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Impurity</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-6.htm">Maid</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-26.htm">Menstruation</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Period</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Purification</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-57.htm">Purified</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Purifying</a> <a href="/leviticus/15-20.htm">Separation</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-6.htm">Six</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-3.htm">Sixty</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-14.htm">Sixty-Six</a> <a href="/numbers/1-27.htm">Threescore</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-3.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/leviticus/20-18.htm">Unwell</a> <a href="/numbers/3-10.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-15.htm">Weeks</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 12</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/12-1.htm">The purification of a woman after childbirth</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm">Her offerings for her purifying</a></span><br></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><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <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> <br /><br /> </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><b>If, however, she gives birth to a daughter</b><br>In the cultural context of ancient Israel, the birth of a daughter was significant, though the reasons for the longer period of purification compared to a son are not explicitly stated in the text. Some scholars suggest it may relate to the future potential for menstruation and childbirth in the daughter, symbolically extending the period of ritual impurity. This reflects the broader biblical theme of the importance of purity and holiness in the community.<p><b>the woman will be unclean for two weeks</b><br>The period of uncleanness for a daughter is double that of a son, which is one week. This reflects the Levitical emphasis on ritual purity and the symbolic nature of uncleanness. The concept of uncleanness is not moral but ceremonial, indicating a temporary state that requires purification. This period allowed the mother to rest and recover, highlighting the care for maternal health in the law.<p><b>as she is during her menstruation</b><br>This comparison to menstruation underscores the natural and cyclical nature of the impurity, which is not sinful but part of the created order. <a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Leviticus 15:19-24</a> provides further context on the laws regarding menstruation, emphasizing the need for separation and purification. This reflects the broader biblical theme of distinguishing between the holy and the common.<p><b>Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days</b><br>The extended period of purification, totaling eighty days for a daughter, includes both the initial two weeks of uncleanness and the subsequent sixty-six days. This time allowed for the complete healing and restoration of the mother. The number eighty may symbolize completeness or fullness, as seen in other biblical contexts. This purification process prefigures the ultimate purification from sin through Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law and offers spiritual cleansing.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>- The author of Leviticus, who received the laws from God to instruct the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>- The people to whom the laws in Leviticus were given, forming the community of God's chosen people.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/c/childbirth.htm">Childbirth</a></b><br>- The event that triggers the period of uncleanness and purification described in this verse.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/d/daughter.htm">Daughter</a></b><br>- The gender of the child born, which affects the duration of the mother's purification period.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/tabernacle.htm">Tabernacle</a></b><br>- The place where the Israelites would bring offerings and where the laws of purification would be observed.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_ritual_purity.htm">Understanding Ritual Purity</a></b><br>The laws of purification highlight the importance of ritual purity in maintaining a relationship with God. They remind us of the need for spiritual cleanliness in our own lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_numbers.htm">Symbolism of Numbers</a></b><br>The specific durations of uncleanness and purification (two weeks and sixty-six days) may symbolize completeness and thoroughness in the purification process, encouraging us to seek thorough spiritual renewal.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/gender_and_cultural_context.htm">Gender and Cultural Context</a></b><br>The difference in purification times for the birth of a son versus a daughter reflects cultural and theological contexts of the time. It invites us to consider how cultural practices influence religious observance and how we can apply biblical principles in our own cultural context.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/christ's_fulfillment_of_the_law.htm">Christ's Fulfillment of the Law</a></b><br>The laws of purification point forward to Christ, who fulfills and transcends these requirements, offering us ultimate purification through His sacrifice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_and_community.htm">Holiness and Community</a></b><br>The emphasis on purification underscores the call to holiness and the impact of individual purity on the community. It challenges us to consider how our personal spiritual state affects our community of faith.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_12.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 12</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><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><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_was_a_daughter_unclean_longer.htm">Why was a daughter unclean longer than a son?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><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><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_ensure_a_meaningful_life.htm">Is a woman unclean during her period?</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>(5) <span class= "bld">But if she bear a maid child.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">but if she giveth birth to a female child. </span>(See <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm" title="Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.">Leviticus 12:2</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">As in her separation.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">as in the time of her monthly courses. </span>(See <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm" title="Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.">Leviticus 12:2</a>.) In the case of a daughter the days of purification in both stages is exactly double that prescribed at the birth of a son. The reason for this difference is probably owing to the fact that the ancients believed that the physical derangement of the system is far greater at the birth of a girl than at the birth of a boy, and that it requires a longer time for the effects to pass away. Similar laws obtained among other nations of antiquity, and exist to this day among many Eastern tribes. The Greeks held that the man who had been near a woman in childbirth defiled the altar if he approached it. One of the means adopted during the Peloponnesian war for purifying the island of Delos was to proscribe women keeping their confinement on the island. The Hindoos go so far as to regard all the relations of a new-born child as impure; the father has to undergo lustrations, and the mother remains unclean till the tenth day, when the child receives its name. Among the Arabs the mother continues unclean for forty days.<p><span class= "bld">In the blood of her purifying.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">in the blood of purification, </span>that is, <span class= "ital">pure blood. </span>(See <a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm" title="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.">Leviticus 12:4</a>.) It will be seen that the law here only legislates for ordinary cases, and that it passes over in silence cases of twins. The administrators of the law during the second Temple had therefore, in this instance, as in many other points, to supplement the Mosaic legislation. They therefore enacted that when a mother had twins, and if they were a boy and a girl, the two stages of her uncleanness were those for a girl. If one of the twins was a boy and the other sexless, or bi-sexual, she continued unclean for both male and female. If, on the contrary, one was a female and the other of neither sex, or bi-sexual, her separation was only for a female.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/12.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">If she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks;... and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.</span> The reason why the duration of the mother's uncleanness is twice as long at a girl's birth as at a boy's, would appear to be that the uncleanness attached to the child as well as to the mother, but as the boy was placed in a state of ceremonial purity at once by the act of circumcision, which took place on the eighth day, he thereupon ceased to be unclean, and the mother's uncleanness alone remained; whereas in the case of a girl, both mother and child were unclean during the period that the former was "in the blood of her purifying," and therefore that period had to be doubly long. See <a href="/luke/2-20.htm">Luke 2:20</a>, where the right reading is, "When the days of <span class="accented">their</span> purification, according to the Law of Moses, were accomplished." For eight days the infant Saviour submitted to legal uncleanness in "fulfilling all righteousness" (<a href="/matthew/3-15.htm">Matthew 3:15</a>), and therefore the whole forty days were spoken of as "the days of their purification." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/12-5.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">if, however,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאִם־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’im-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she gives birth to</span><br /><span class="heb">תֵלֵ֔ד</span> <span class="translit">(ṯê·lêḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3205.htm">Strong's 3205: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a daughter,</span><br /><span class="heb">נְקֵבָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(nə·qê·ḇāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5347.htm">Strong's 5347: </a> </span><span class="str2">A female</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[the woman] will be unclean</span><br /><span class="heb">וְטָמְאָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ṭā·mə·’āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2930.htm">Strong's 2930: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become unclean</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for two weeks</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם</span> <span class="translit">(šə·ḇu·‘a·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - md<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7620.htm">Strong's 7620: </a> </span><span class="str2">A period of seven (days, years), heptad, week</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as she is during menstruation.</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ</span> <span class="translit">(kə·nid·dā·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5079.htm">Strong's 5079: </a> </span><span class="str2">Rejection, impurity, personal, moral</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Then she must continue</span><br /><span class="heb">תֵּשֵׁ֖ב</span> <span class="translit">(tê·šêḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">purification</span><br /><span class="heb">טָהֳרָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(ṭā·ho·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2893.htm">Strong's 2893: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ceremonial purification, moral purity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from her bleeding</span><br /><span class="heb">דְּמֵ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(də·mê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> </span><span class="str2">Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for sixty-six</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(wə·šiš·šîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8346.htm">Strong's 8346: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sixty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">days.</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹם֙</span> <span class="translit">(yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/12-5.htm">Leviticus 12:5 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/12-5.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 12:5 But if she bears a female child (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/12-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 12:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 12:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/12-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 12:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 12:6" /></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>