3 Mose 12:4

Lutherbibel

Und sie soll daheimbleiben dreiunddreißig Tage im Blut ihrer Reinigung. Kein Heiliges soll sie anrühren, und zum Heiligtum soll sie nicht kommen, bis daß die Tage ihrer Reinigung aus sind.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und sie soll daheim bleiben dreiunddreißig Tage lang im Blut ihrer Reinigung; sie soll nichts Heiliges anrühren und nicht kommen zum Heiligtum, bis die Tage ihrer Reinigung erfüllt sind.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie soll dreiunddrei�ig Tage im Blute der Reinigung bleiben; nichts Heiliges soll sie anr�hren, und zum Heiligtum soll sie nicht kommen, bis die Tage ihrer Reinigung erf�llt sind.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days,.... That is, so many more, in all forty; for though at the end of seven days she was in some respects free from her uncleanness, yet not altogether, but remained in the blood of her purifying, or in the purifying of her blood, which was more and more purified, and completely at the end of forty days: so with the Persians it is said, a new mother must avoid everything for forty days; when that time is passed, she may wash and be purified n; and which perhaps Zoroastres, the founder of the Persian religion, at least the reformer of it, being a Jew, as is by some supposed, he might take it from hence:

she shall touch no hallowed thing; as the tithe, the heave offering, the flesh of the peace offerings, as Aben Ezra explains it, if she was a priest's wife:

nor come into the sanctuary; the court of the tabernacle of the congregation, or the court of the temple, as the same writer observes; and so with the Greeks, a pregnant woman might not come into a temple before the fortieth day o, that is, of her delivery:

until the days of her purifying be fulfilled; until the setting of the sun of the fortieth day; on the morrow of that she was to bring the atonement of her purification, as Jarchi observes;

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n Lib. Shad-der, port. 86. apud Hyde Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. p. 478. o Censorinus apud Grotium in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Levitical law ascribed impurity exclusively to the mother, in no degree to the Child.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 12:4. The blood of her purifying — A few words will make this subject sufficiently plain.

1. God designs that the human female should bring forth children.

2. That children should derive, under his providence, their being, all their solids and all their fluids, in a word, the whole mass of their bodies, from the substance of the mother.

3. For this purpose he has given to the body of the female an extra quantity of blood and nutritious juices.

4. Before pregnancy this superabundance is evacuated at periodical times.

5. In pregnancy, that which was formerly evacuated is retained for the formation and growth of the fetus, or the general strengthening of the system during the time of pregnancy.

6. After the birth of the child, for seven or fourteen days, more or less according to certain circumstances, that superabundance, no longer necessary for the growth of the child as before, continues to be evacuated: this was called the time of the female's purification among the Jews.

7. When the lacerated vessels are rejoined, this superfluity of blood is returned into the general circulation, and, by a wise law of the Creator, becomes principally useful to the breasts, and helps in the production of milk for the nourishment of the new-born infant.

8. And thus it continues till the weaning of the child, or renewed pregnancy takes place. Here is a series of mercies and wise providential regulations which cannot be known without being admired, and which should be known that the great Creator and Preserver may have that praise from his creatures which his wonderful working demands.

The term purifying here does not imply that there is any thing impure in the blood at this or the other times referred to above; on the contrary, the blood is pure, perfectly so, as to its quality, but is excessive in quantity for the reasons above assigned. The idle tales found in certain works relative to the infectious nature of this fluid, and of the female in such times are as impious as they are irrational and absurd.