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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Leviticus 12:6 - 12:6
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the days of her purifying - Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the day after the period of her separation had ended - that is, forty-first for a boy, eighty-first for a girl.