PURIFICATION AFTER CHILDBIRTH
Keywords 12:6
When the days of her purification for a son or
daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a
sin offering.
1. The laws about clean and unclean food relate to man’s curse in the Garden to toil by the sweat of his brow
for food. Next, the Lord gave regulations concerning purification after
childbirth. This delicate topic addresses God’s curse on the woman in the Garden regarding pains in
child-bearing.
2. A
woman should set herself apart for a certain amount of time to be purified of
her bleeding after childbirth. She was to remain apart from her husband and
away from the sanctuary. This could become a time to meditate on God’s grace to bear children and to place her hope in God
for the child.
3. Out of
thankfulness for God’s mercy
to bear children and to pass through the curse of all its pains and life-threatening
risks, a mother should bring a lamb for a burnt offering. She should also bring
a dove or pigeon for a sin offering for her atonement. In a cursed world,
original sin was passed through her to the next generation, and there must be
atonement. If she could not afford a lamb, she could bring a pair of doves. The
offering was not as important as the woman’s heart
of thanksgiving, joy and hope in God, who blessed her to bear children and
entrusted her with their lives.
Prayer Father,
thank you for your blessing of childbearing. Help mothers to realize your
mercy, joy, and hope through childbearing.
One Word God’s mercy
through childbearing
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