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 Living Translation (NLT)If a woman gives birth to a daughter, she will be ceremonially unclean for two weeks, just as she is unclean during her menstrual period. After waiting sixty-six days, she will be purified from the bleeding of childbirth.

Context of Leviticus 12:5

3And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4She shall then continue in the blood of her purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled. ‘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. 6‘When the days of her purification are fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a lamb of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 7Then he shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her. And she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who has borne a male or a female.

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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be unclean.
• Genesis 3:13And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
• 1 Timothy 2:14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

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