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Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 12

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This is a parallel-column scholarly edition of Leviticus 12 (eight verses) presented simultaneously in four textual traditions: the King James Version (KJV), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter is priestly legislation from the Pentateuch governing a woman's ritual purity after childbirth. Its core content specifies periods of ritual uncleanness (seven days for a son, fourteen for a daughter), followed by longer purification periods (33 days for a son, 66 for a daughter), during which the mother may not touch sacred objects or enter the sanctuary. At the purification period's end, she must bring a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering; if she cannot afford a lamb, two birds suffice — the provision Luke 2:24 cites at Jesus's presentation in the Temple. The distinctive scholarly value here is the synoptic format, which allows direct comparison of how each tradition renders key terms (e.g., impurity, atonement, purification) and the numeric details across the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin textual lineages.

Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 12

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