| Geneva Study Bible And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Wesley's Notes 12:1 From uncleanness contracted by the touching or eating of external things, he now comes to that uncleanness which ariseth from ourselves. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary CHAPTER 12 Le 12:1-8. Woman's Uncleanness by Childbirth. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 12:1-8 Ceremonial purification. - After the laws concerning clean and unclean food, come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons. Man imparts his depraved nature to his offspring, so that, excepting as the atonement of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit prevent, the original blessing, Increase and multiply, Ge 1:28, is become to the fallen race a direful curse, and communicates sin and misery. Let those women who have received mercy from God in child-bearing, with all thankfulness own God's goodness to them; and this shall please the Lord better than sacrifices. | 
