Leviticus 12:5

Leviticus 12:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
• New International Version (NIV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.

Context of Leviticus 12:5

3The boy must be circumcised when he is eight days old. 4Then she must stay at home for 33 days in order to be made clean from her bleeding. She must not touch anything holy or go into the holy place until the days needed to make her clean are over. “When a woman gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean as in her monthly period. However, she will be unclean for two weeks. Then she must stay at home for 66 days in order to be made clean from her bleeding. 6“When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She must bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7The priest will offer them in the Lord’s presence to make peace with the Lord for her. Then she will be clean from her flow of blood. “These are the instructions for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.

Leviticus 12:5 word by word

וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֣ה תֵלֵ֔ד וְטָמְאָ֥ה שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְשֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֔ים תֵּשֵׁ֖ב עַל־דְּמֵ֥י טָהֳרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But if she bearיָלַדyâlad · to begetH3205
• a maid childנְקֵבָהneqêbâh · femaleH5347
• then she shall be uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · to defileH2930
• two weeksשָׁבוּעַshâbûa‛ shâbûa‛ shebû‛âh · weekH7620
• as in her separationנִדָּהniddâh · impurityH5079
• and she shall continueיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• in the bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• of her purifyingטׇהֳרָהţohŏrâh · purifyingH2893
• threescoreשִׁשִּׁיםshishshîym · sixtyH8346
• and sixשֵׁשׁshêsh shishshâh · sixH8337
• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117

Cross-references for Leviticus 12:5

• Leviticus 12:2“Tell the Israelites: When a woman gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days. This is the same number of days she is unclean for her monthly period.
• Genesis 3:13Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The snake deceived me, and I ate,” the woman answered.
• 1 Timothy 2:14Besides that, Adam was not deceived. It was the woman who was deceived and sinned.

Commentaries on Leviticus 12:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Some have thought that this doubling of each of the two periods was intended to remind the people of the fact that woman represents the lower side of human nature, and was the first to fall into temptation. 1 Timothy 2:13-15; 1 Peter 3:7. The ancients had a notion that the mother suffers for a longer time after the birth of a girl than after the birth of a boy. The period required for the restoration of her health in the one case was thirty days, and in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5two weeks … sixty-six days: The total is eighty days. This is double the purification time needed for a son's birth (see also Leviticus 27:2–7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-82. If a woman, &c.--The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised (Ge 17:12; Ro 4:11-13); the mother of a girl for two weeks (Le 12:5)--a stigma on the sex (1Ti 2:14, 15) for sin, which was removed by Christ; everyone who came near her during that time contracted a similar defilement. After these periods, visitors might approach her though she was still excluded from the public ordinances of…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 12:5

• Defilement
• Sanitation

In the dictionaries

• Ablution
• Birth
• Clean
• Issue
• Week
• Atonement, Day of
• Bear; Born
• Cleanse
• Defile; Defilement
• Ezekiel

Commentaries on Leviticus 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings