Leviticus 12:2

New English Translation

“Tell the Israelites, ‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

2 Samuel 11:4

David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home.

Job 14:4

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Leviticus 12:1

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Leviticus 12:5

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.

Leviticus 15:19

“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:19

“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

Leviticus 5:3

or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

Luke 2:22

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord