Leviticus 12:2

New International Version

“Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

2 Samuel 11:4

Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 15:14

“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

Job 25:4

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

Psalm 51:5

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Leviticus 12:1

The Lord said to Moses,

Leviticus 12:5

If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.

Leviticus 15:19

“ ‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 18:19

“ ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

Leviticus 5:3

or if they touch human uncleanness (anything that would make them unclean) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt;

Luke 2:22

When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord