Leviticus 12:2

New Century Version

“Tell the people of Israel this: ‘If a woman gives birth to a son, she will become unclean for seven days, as she is unclean during her monthly period.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said, “Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 3:16

Then God said to the woman, “I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you.”

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers to bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to him, he had sexual relations with her. (Now Bathsheba had purified herself from her monthly period.) Then she went back to her house.

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 15:14

“How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Psalm 51:5

I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

Leviticus 12:1

The Lord said to Moses,

Leviticus 12:5

But if she gives birth to a daughter, the mother will be unclean for two weeks, as she is unclean during her monthly period. It will be sixty-six days before she becomes clean from her loss of blood.

Leviticus 15:19

“ ‘When a woman has her monthly period, she is unclean for seven days; anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:19

“ ‘You must not go near a woman to have sexual relations with her during her monthly period, when she is unclean.

Leviticus 5:3

“ ‘Someone might touch human uncleanness—anything that makes someone unclean—and not know it. But when he learns about it, he will be guilty.

Luke 2:22

When the time came for Mary and Joseph to do what the law of Moses taught about being made pure, they took Jesus to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.