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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Leviticus 12:2 - 12:2
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If a woman, etc. - The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised (Gen 17:12; Rom 4:11-13); the mother of a girl for two weeks (Lev 12:5) - a stigma on the sex (1Ti 2:14, 1Ti 2:15) 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 religion [Lev 12:4].