Leviticus 12:1
SPAKE. See note on Leviticus 5:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Leviticus 5:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. SEVEN DAYS. See note on Leviticus 12:5. ACCORDING TO THE DAYS. Compare Leviticus 15:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
CIRCUMCISED. See note on "leprosy", Leviticus 13:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE AND THIRTY. Half the period of maid child. See Leviticus 12:5 (7. 33. 40. See App-10). HALLOWED. Hebrew. _kadesh._ See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
PURIFYING. purification, i.e. pure blood as distinct from the other. THREESCORE AND SIX DAYS. Double that after. man child. See Leviticus 12:4 (14. 66. 80). This ordinance was not on account of any disparity between the sexes, but was in order to regulate them, so that the birth-rate of females mig... [ Continue Reading ]
SHE SHALL BRING. As Mary did. Luke 2:22. DOOR. entrance. TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew. _'ohel_. App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFER IT. bring it near. Hebrew. _karab._ App-43. MAKE. Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac read, "and the priest shall make", as in Leviticus 12:8. MAKE AN ATONEMENT. See note on Exodus 29:33. ISSUE. fount [discharge].... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO TURTLES. See Luke 2:22; Luke 2:24, and compare 2 Corinthians 8:9.... [ Continue Reading ]