Leviticus 12:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Say to the Israelites, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, she shall be unclean seven days, unclean as during her monthly discomfort.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.

Common English Bible

² Say to the Israelites: If a woman conceives a child and gives birth to a son, she will be unclean for seven days—just as she is during her menstrual period.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: A woman, if she has received the seed to bear a male, shall be unclean for seven days, just as in the days of separation due to menstruation.

Leviticus 12:2 Cross References

Genesis 1:28

And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said, “I greatly increase your sorrow and your conception – bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.”

2 Samuel 11:4

And Dawiḏ

Job 14:4

Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? And one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

So how could man be righteous before Ě

Psalm 51:5

See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Leviticus 12:1

And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Leviticus 12:5

‘But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her monthly separation, and she remains in the blood of her cleansing for sixty-six days.

Leviticus 15:19

‘And when a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her flesh is blood, she has to be in her separation for seven days. And whoever touches her is unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:19

‘And do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness in her monthly separation of uncleanness.

Leviticus 5:3

‘Or when he touches uncleanness of man, any of his uncleanness by which he is unclean, and it has been hidden from him, when he shall know it, then he shall be guilty.

Luke 2:22

And when the days of her cleansing according to the Torah of Mosheh were completed, they brought Him to Yerushalayim to present Him to יהוה  –