Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
WOMAN'S UNCLEANNESS BY CHILDBIRTH. (Leviticus 12:1-8)
If a woman, etc.—The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised (Genesis 17:12; Romans 4:11-13); the mother of a girl for two weeks (Leviticus 12:5) —a stigma on the sex (I Timothy 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 religion [Leviticus 12:4].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Leviticus 12:2:
Leviticus 12:2
Lamentations 1:8
Luke 2:22-24
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