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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. See also: Luke 2:22Leviticus 15:19Leviticus 18:19In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. See also: Luke 2:21Luke 1:59John 7:22-23She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. See also: Luke 2:22-23Leviticus 15:25-28Haggai 2:13But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. See also: 1 Timothy 2:14-15Genesis 3:13Leviticus 12:4“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering. See also: Luke 2:221 Peter 1:18-19John 1:29He shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. See also: Leviticus 4:31Leviticus 15:28-30Romans 3:26If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’” See also: Leviticus 5:7Leviticus 4:26Luke 2:22-24
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Leviticus 12:2
Ver. 2. Child. By this manner of expressing himself, Moses excludes the blessed Virgin, as the ancient fathers and the moderns generally remark. She conceived without concupiscence, and was subject to none of the usual inconveniences of child-birth. Suarez. --- So that whether this law was instituted to expiate the former, or to purify the latter, she was not included. All other mothers were separated, at least seven days, and longer if their state required it; (C.) during which time, they were treated like those mentioned, C.
xv. 19. After that period they were allowed to manage their affairs, as usual, but not to touch any thing sacred, nor suffer their husbands to approach them, till the expiration of 33 days more, v. 4. M. --- Euripides blames Diana for keeping such women at a distance from her altar, while she delighted in human sacrifices.
Iphigen. v. 380. Censorinus says, "Prægnan ante diem quadragesimum non prodit in Fanum; & post partum pleræque graviores sunt, nec sanguinem interdum continent." Grotius.
↑ 2Leviticus 12:3
Ver. 3. Eighth. Nothing but the child's health could retard the day, (C.) unless the parents were under the necessity of taking a journey, as they were in the desert, &c. H.
↑ 3Leviticus 12:4
Ver. 4. Sanctuary, or court of the tabernacle, where the women had probably a place apart. C.
↑ 4Leviticus 12:5
Ver. 5. Days. In all 80, double the time required for a male child, as they infirmities of women continue so much longer when they bear a female. Vales.
sac. Philos. c. xviii. Hippocrates allows forty-two days for the one, and thirty for the other. --- Purification. Some copies of the Sept. read, in her pure, others, in her impure blood; which Origen attempts to reconcile by observing, that she is deemed less impure during the last thirty-three or sixty-six days, than in the preceding ones. C. --- During these, she was treated almost like those who were under the greatest legal uncleanness, C. xv. Numbers v. Those who were under the less, might enter the court of the Gentiles, and did not infect others by their touch. Josep. c. Apion 2. T.
↑ 5Leviticus 12:6
Ver. 6. Lamb, to thank God for her happy delivery. --- Sin, or uncleanness, which was esteemed a legal offence. Perhaps this sacrifice was also designed to expiate the sins she might have fallen into, (M.) since she was last able to offer one; and likewise the original sin of her female offspring. That of males was effaced by circumcision. H.
↑ 6Leviticus 12:7
Ver. 7. Blood, which has caused her legal uncleanness.
↑ 7Leviticus 12:8
Ver. 8. Lamb. This was the case of the blessed Virgin: (Luc. ii. 24,); so poor was she! M. --- It seems difficult to conceive, how all the women of Palestine could present themselves before the tabernacle, 40 or 80 days after the childbirth.
Perhaps the law regarded those only who lived in the neighbourhood. The priests explained to the rest what they had to do, whether they might defer bringing their offering till the next great festival, or they might send it by another hand. We read that Anna came to the temple after she had weaned Samuel, 1 K. i. 21. C.
↑ 8License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses