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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 12:8

If she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles— See note on ch. Leviticus 5:7, &c. The mother of our blessed LORD was in so humble a state of life as to be able only to bring this offering, mercifully ordained for those in that state. Learn we hence how much our Redeemer humbled himself for our salvation!

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See also Leviticus 12:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 12:8. _AND IF SHE BE NOT ABLE TO BRING A LAMB, THEN SHE_ _SHALL BRING TWO TURTLES, OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS_] As the Virgin Mary brought only the latter, hence it is evident that she _was...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This chapter would more naturally follow the 15th chapter of Leviticus. See the note to Leviticus 15:1....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The sacrificial act expressed an acknowledgment of sin and a dedication of herself to Yahweh. See Leviticus 8:14. Leviticus 12:6 OF THE FIRST YEAR - literally, as in the margin, “a son of his year.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. CHILDBIRTH LAWS AND INHERITED SIN CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The man-child (Leviticus 12:1)_ 2. The maid-child (Leviticus 12:5) 3. The offerings (Leviticus 12:6) The childbirth laws as containe

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LEVITICUS 12. UNCLEANNESS AFTER CHILDBIRTH AND CIRCUMCISION. The period of uncleanness lasts twice as long after the birth of a girl (see on Leviticus 11). After the first week, when the uncleanness m...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TWO TURTLES. See Luke 2:22; Luke 2:24, and compare 2 Corinthians 8:9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _if her means suffice not for a lamb_ -if she be not able to bring," A.V. Its mg. -If her hand find not sufficiency of," is the literal rendering of the Heb....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. THE OFFERINGS PRESCRIBED FOR CEREMONIAL CLEANSING 12:6-8 TEXT 12:6-8 6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burn...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ Mankind are not only liable to defilement from without, but have internal causes of pollution lying deep in their nature. And hence, the laws which were given...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNCLEANNESS CONNECTED WITH CHILDBIRTH The functions of reproduction are in early stages of religion regarded with superstitious dread. The enactments in this chapter and the related regulations in Le...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Luke 2:24, which shows that the Virgin Mary offered the poor woman's sacrifice....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND IF SHE BE NOT ABLE. — As a merciful provision for those who were too poor to bring a lamb, the law permits them to bring a turtle-dove or a pigeon for a burnt offering, provided only it is the sam...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִם ־לֹ֨א תִמְצָ֣א יָדָהּ֮ דֵּ֣י שֶׂה֒

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE UNCLEANNESS OF CHILD BEARING Leviticus 12:1 THE reference in Leviticus 12:2 to the regulations given in Leviticus 15:19, as remarked in the preceding chapter, shows us that the author of these la...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PURIFICATION AFTER CHILD BIRTH Leviticus 12:4 "And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the da...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PURIFICATION AFTER CHILD-BEARING Leviticus 12:1 The birth of a boy involved seven days' ceremonial defilement; of a girl, fourteen. Not the child, but the mother, was adjudged to be unclean, securing...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this brief section, which deals with the beginning of life, the religious aspect of childbirth is most unquestionably the permanent value. The separation of the woman from the congregation for a pe...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Lamb. This was the case of the blessed Virgin: (Luke ii. 24,); so poor was she! (Menochius) --- It seems difficult to conceive, how all the women of Palestine could present themselves before the taber...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, though difference of circumstances made allowance for the difference of gifts in the burnt-offering, yet there was none for the sin-offering; meaning that in sin both great and small, high an...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Priesthood being established, there comes the discernment between holy things and profane, and the judgment of defilements (chaps. 11-15), and wha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IF SHE BE NOT ABLE TO BRING A LAMB,.... As everyone was not in circumstances sufficient to be at the expense of buying a lamb for this purpose, having none of their own: THEN SHE SHALL BRING TWO...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The morality of this law obliges women who have received mercies from God in child-bearing, with all thankfulness to acknowledge his goodness to them, owning themselves unworthy of it, and (which is t...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The purification of women after childbirth. 6 Her offerings for her purifying. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a [NOTE: Leviticus 15:19.]...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And if she be not able to bring a lamb, if her poverty is such as to make it impossible for her to afford a lamb, THEN SHE SHALL BRING TWO TURTLES (turtledoves) OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS; THE ONE FOR THE B...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Purification after Childbirth....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS CONNECTED WITH CHILDBIRTH Every child born into the world adds to the sin that was first introduced by the woman. Yet God had told Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28), and t...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHE BE NOT ABLE TO BRING: _ Heb._ her hand find not sufficiency of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This brief section reads out to us, after its own peculiar fashion, the double lesson of "man's ruin and God's remedy." But though the fashion is peculiar, the lesson is most distinct and impressive....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 12:8 bring H4672 (H8799) H1767 H3027 lamb H7716 bring H3947 (H8804) two H8147 turtledoves...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And if her means do not suffice for a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, the one for a whole burnt offering, and the other for a purification for sin offering: and the p...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The law of motherhood. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: All are conceived and born in sin (Psalms 51:5) for, if the root be impure, so is the branch. It is only by Christ, the great sin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 12:2. _Speak unto the children of Israel:_ that every man may convey the law to his wife, and assist in the ceremony of purification. Leviticus 12:3. _Circumcised._ To this law our Saviour...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _She shall Be unclean._ BIRTH-SIN AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS The theme of the chapter is the same as that of the one preceding and the one following. The subject is sin, portrayed by symbols. In the divisi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 12:1__ A WOMAN who has just given birth is considered UNCLEAN because of loss of blood. Three steps are required to become clean again. The time of purification for the mot...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 12:8 LAMB... TWO TURTLEDOVES. Compare Leviticus 5:11; and Luke 2:

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Maternity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 12:2.—If a woman hath conceived … she shall be unclean. Thus at the very entrance into life uncleanness clings to us. Not a child is born without defilement su...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION UNCLEANNESS DERIVED FROM CHILDBIRTH. As there is a natural disgust felt for some kinds of food, which serves as a foundation for the precepts of the last chapter, so there is an instinct w...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter twelve, the Lord now deals with a woman who has born a child. And if it's a male child: she shall be unclean for seven days; after the birth of the child the separation from her infirmity....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 8:9; Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 14:22; Leviticus 15:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The morality of this law obliges women who have received mercies from God in child — bearing, with all thankfulness to acknowledge his goodness to them, owning themselves unworthy of it, and (which is...

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