Leviticus 12:2

God's Word

“Tell the Israelites: When a woman gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days. This is the same number of days she is unclean for her monthly period.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said, “Be fertile, increase in number, fill the earth, and be its master. Rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”

Genesis 3:16

He said to the woman, “I will increase your pain and your labor when you give birth to children. Yet, you will long for your husband, and he will rule you.”

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers and took her. She came to him, and he went to bed with her. (She had just cleansed herself after her monthly period.) Then she went home.

Job 14:4

“If only an unclean person could become clean! It’s not possible.

Job 15:14

Why should a mortal be considered faultless or someone born of a woman be considered righteous?

Job 25:4

How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty. I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Leviticus 12:1

The Lord spoke to Moses,

Leviticus 12:5

“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.

Leviticus 15:19

“When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:19

“Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.

Leviticus 5:3

“If you become unclean by touching human uncleanness of any kind and then ignore it (although you know what you did), you will be guilty.

Luke 2:22

After the days required by Moses’ Teachings to make a mother clean  had passed, Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem. They took Jesus to present him to the Lord.