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KJB-1611 1 The purification of women after childbirth. 6 Her offerings for her purifying.
This short chapter continues Yahweh’s law concern clean and unclean things. In this chapter, Yahweh describes the process by which a woman becomes unclean when giving birth to children, as well as the process for her purification. The structure of this chapter is as follows: 1) Becoming unclean due to childbirth (12:1–5) A. Giving birth to a male child (12:1–4) B. Giving birth to female child (12:5) 2) Sacrifices required for purification (12:6–8) A. The normal burnt and sin offering requirements (12:6–7) B. Provisions for the inability to acquire the normal offerings (12:8)
In this chapter, a woman is described as becoming unclean in the process of childbirth. This is because any loss of blood and all bodily discharges made a person ritually unclean. For this reason, this chapter also describes how a woman may become purified from the uncleanness of the bloodloss during and following childbirth. It is important to note that this uncleanness is not because a woman’s flowing blood was considered sinful. Uncleanness was acquired when a person bled, because the loss of blood was considered a sign of proximity to death.It is also important to note that there is a difference in the length of purification when a woman gives birth to a girl rather than a boy. While the reason for this is debated, the difference is not due to the fact that girls were considered more unclean than boys. In your translation, make sure not to convey this misunderstanding. (See: clean and blood)The expression “the blood of her purification” (12:4–5) uses the possessive form to describe a flow of blood that is characterized by the fact that the onset of this blood begins a period of time during which the woman should wait to be purified. This is called the “days of her purification” (12:4 and 12:6). The implication is that for the 33 (after giving birth to a boy) or 66 days (after giving birth to a girl) during which time the woman is unclean because of bleeding from childbirth, the woman is waiting to be purified from the impurity caused by the blood that she bled during her childbirth.