Leviticus 12

Leviticus 12:1-8

Leviticus 12:1-82. Family Uncleanness or Uncleanness from Natural Causes (Leviticus 12:1-8) It is difficult to see wherein the birth of a child is considered among the laws of the unclean unless it be that God would have His people remember, every time a child is born into the world, the connection of that birth with the fall of man and the curse pronounced upon woman because of sin, as set forth in Genesis 3:1-24. That sin is transmitted by human generation is evident from Psalms 51:5 -“ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Even the mother of Jesus brought her offering at the close of her days of purification. If genius can be hereditary, why cannot sin? It would seem as though in the case of every child-birth there was a reecho in the ears of woman of the sentence pronounced upon Eve, the first woman, for her sin. Is this the reason why seventy days of uncleanness are mentioned for the birth of a female child, while only forty are mentioned for the birth of a male child? We may not be able to see the reason for all this now any more than they did then, but inability to explain does not make void the proposition or make dead the fact.

We should not forget, however, that the Redeemer of the race came into the world in just this way and that the magnificent promise that we are “ saved through the child bearing” gives to woman the glorious privilege and assurance that just as she was the instrument of the introduction of sin into the world, so she shall have the privilege of bringing the Savior from sin into the world (1 Timothy 2:11-15; cf. Luke 1:48).