Leviticus 12:2

Good News Translation

for the people of Israel. For seven days after a woman gives birth to a son, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

Genesis 3:16

And he said to the woman, “I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him.”

2 Samuel 11:4

David sent messengers to get her; they brought her to him and he made love to her. (She had just finished her monthly ritual of purification.) Then she went back home.

Job 14:4

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

Job 15:14

Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

Job 25:4

Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight?

Psalm 51:5

I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.

Leviticus 12:1

The Lord gave Moses the following regulations

Leviticus 12:5

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.

Leviticus 15:19

When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:19

Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean.

Leviticus 5:3

If you unintentionally touch anything of human origin that is unclean, whatever it may be, you are guilty as soon as you realize what you have done.

Luke 2:22

The time came for Joseph and Mary to perform the ceremony of purification, as the Law of Moses commanded. So they took the child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,