the land of Egypt to be your God : ye ſhall therefore be holy, for I aw: holy.
+H:b: Of every living creature that + moveth in the waters, fwinmeth. and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth. 47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and berween the beaſt chat may be eaten, and the beaſt that may not be eaten.
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and her purification thirty three days, 1==-====q, Of a daughter fourteen 2] days, and her purification ſixty ſix days, 5» Her offering, if rich, a lamb of a year old, a young pigeon, or rurtle-dove for a ſm-ffering, 6, 7. If Fe poor, two turtle doves, or two young pigeons ; one for a burnt-offering, and
one for a ſin-offering, 8.
N D the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, ſaying, 2 Speak unto the children of Iſrael, ſaying, If a
*Chap: * woman have Þ conceived ſeed, and born a man-child, SETS: then * ſhe ſhall be unclean # ſeven days & : according to | ferdes. Fe days ofthe ſeparation for her infirmity c ſball ſhe be
*Tuke: unclean. -
2: 22: From uncleanneſs contratted by the touching or eating of external things, he now comes to that uncleanneſs which ariſeth from our ſelves. . "
a Not for any filthineſs which was either in the Conception, or In bringing forth, but to ſignify the univerſal and deep Pollution of Man's Nature even from the Birch, and from the Conceprion. 4 For ſo long, or thereabouts, Nature is employed in the Purgation of moſt Women- c (7.e. ) For her monthly Infirmiry. And it may note an agreement therewith not only inthe time, Levit: r5: 19: but in the degree of uncleanneſs, which was ſuch that ſhe defiled every thing ſhe touched, &c. SGen:19: 3 And in the * eighth day, the fleſh of his foreski®
12:uke ſhall be circumciſed 4.
1:59: nd &@& Which Law is here repeated, becauſe the Womans uncleanneſs 2:21:John laſting for ſeven Days. was one, though not the only reaſon, why the 7:2242 _Child's Circumciſion was put off till the eighth Day.
4 And ſhe ſhall thencontinue e in the blood of her purifying f three and thirty days : ſhe ſhall crouch no hallowed thing g, nor come into the ſanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
e Heb. ſit, 5. e. abide, as that word is oft uſed, as Gen: 22: 5: and 34: 10: or tarry at home, nor go into the San&tuary. fIn her polluted and ſeparated Eſtate ; for the word Bleed or Bloods {ignifies both guilr, as Gen: 4: 10. and Uncleannefs, as here and eHewhere. See Ezek: 16: 6: And it is called the Blood of her purifying, becaule by the Expulſion or Purgation of that Biood, which is done by degrees, ſhe is purified. £g Ske ihall not eat any part of the Peace-offerings which ſhe or her Husband offered, which otherwiſe ſke might have done ; and, if ſhe be a Prieſt's Wife, ſhe ſhall noteart any of the Tythes or firſt Fruits, or part of the hallowed Meats, which at other tunes ſhe togerbes with her Husband might eat.
LEVITICUS.
killed by ſome Wild Beaſt, in which
not for any rea' Uncleanneſs in them,all beingGod's goodCreatures, ;
45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of
5 But if ſhe bear a maid-child, thet ſhe ſhall be | unclean two weeks, as in her ſeparation : and ſhe ſhall ! continue in the blood of her purifying threeſcore and ſix days h.
þ The time in both particulars is double to the former, not fo much from natural Cauſes, becauſe the Purifications in Female Births are longer and flower; which if it were true, yet doth not extend to any ſuch time as here is mentioned, as for moral Reaſons ; either ta to be as a blot upon that Sex for being the firſt in Mans Tranfgrefſion, 1 Tim: 2* 14. or to put an Honour -upon the Sacrament of Circumci- ſion, which being adminiſtred to the Males, did put an end to that Pollution ſooner than otherwiſe had been; or to ſhew rhe priviledge of the Man above the Woman, and that the Women were to be purifi-d, ſan&ified, and ſaved by one of the other Sex, even by the M:n Chriſt Jeſus, without-whom they ſhould have till continued in their impurity» | =p
6 And when the days of hor purifying are fulfilled for a ſon, or for a daughter i, ſhe ſhall bring alamb of the + firſt year for a burnt-offering, and a young 1, .. pigeon, or a turtle-dove for a ſin-oftering &, unto the ,#,; ,.,. door of the tabernacle of the congregation unto the prieſt :
; For the Birth of a Son, or of a Daughter : but the Purification
was for her ſelf, as appears from the following Verſes. & Either becauſe of her ceremonial Uncleanneſs, which required a ceremonial | Expiation ; or for thoſe particular Sins relating to the time and ſtate | of Child-bearing, of which ſhe 1s juſtly preſumed to be guilty, which might be many ways. 7 Who s$hall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her, and she s$hall be cleanſed from the iſſue of her blood, This is the law for her that hath
' born a male, or a female /. I For though there was a difference in the time of her Uncleanneſs for the one and for the other, yet both were to be purified one and the ſame way ; to note, that though all Sins and Sinners were not : equal, yet all were to be cleanſed by the ſame means, to wit, by Chriſt, and by Faith. See x Cor: 7: 14: Gal: 3: 28: 8 * Andif 7 she be not able to bring a lamb, then * Luke
' he $hall bring two turtles, or twoyoung pigeons, the 22+ — , + Heb.
' one for the burnt-offering, and the other for a ſin-of- ;,, ,,,z
| fering, and the prieft shail make an aronement for her, fd mr
' and she $hall be clean,
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46 Thiss the law of the beaſts, and ofthe fowl, and |
4 Laws touching the uncletwmneſs of women in child-bearing. Of a ſon, ſeven day:; |
: Laws touching Leproſies ; its different kinds how to be known: and judged of by the pri-ſt, 1——8. Of the ſwelling, 9g —17. Of the Sores or Boils, 18 un=—_—z, Of the fiery Inflamation, 24 - 28. Of the ſcall, 29 —— 37, Of the Bliſters, 38. 39. Of baldneſs, 40 44. The Leper with clothes rent, bare-head, and covered lips, muſt cry Unclean, unclean, and dwell alone, 45, 46. Of the leproſie m Clothes, Linen, Woollen, and Skins, 47 - 59.
ND the LORD fſpake unto Moſes and Aaron ſaying,
2 When a man ſhall have in the skin &@ of his Fleſh a F rifing, a ſcab, or bright ſpot b, and it be in the Skin of his Fleſh like the plague of leproſfie c, * then he
ſhal be brought unto Aaron the pricſt 4, or unto one of his ſons the prieſts.