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Leviticus 12:7

Day of Atonement (Judgment Phase)Atonement Process

“Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.”

But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

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Atonement Process

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Day of Atonement (Judgment Phase)

The verse describes a ritual for a woman after childbirth, focusing on her personal cleansing from "the issue of her blood," which is distinct from the annual, national ceremony of Yom Kippur and its broader implications for judgment and sin removal.

Atonement Process

The verse describes a ritual cleansing from a physical "issue of blood" after childbirth, not a moral or spiritual "sin," and therefore the "atonement" mentioned may refer to ritual purification rather than forgiveness for wrongdoing.

Day of Atonement (Judgment Phase)

Cross-References

Job 14:4Thematic

“Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.”

Galatians 3:28Thematic

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Leviticus 4:31Thematic

“And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.”

Leviticus 4:35Thematic

“And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.”

Romans 3:26Thematic

“To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”

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