Leviticus 12:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.”
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““Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she giveth seed, and hath born a male, then she hath been unclean seven days, according to the days of separation for her sickness she is unclean;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 12:2 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Genesis 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
- Leviticus 5:3Or if he touches human uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty.
- Leviticus 12:5If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
- Leviticus 15:19When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 18:19You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
- Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- Luke 2:22And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord
- Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
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