Friday April 21st 2017
key verse: 4
YOU WILL BE PURIFIED OF YOUR BLOOD
This chapter speaks about the women who have given birth. They must carefully follow the rules of purification.
1. The rule about the number of days to the purification of the pregnant women who have given birth (1-5)
When a woman becomes pregnant and delivers a boy, she is impure during 7 days, at which point the boy will be circumcised. After the delivery, during 33 days, the woman will be impure again, so her active life will be limited. When the child is a girl, the number of days will be doubled. This law didn't exist at the time of Abraham. God gave the promise in Gn 17 to the circumcision of the boys. Abraham and his sons obeyed it. The promulgation of this double number of days isn't because the woman is the origin of the fall, but because the man is the protagonist of Abraham's promise, which rather shortens the number of days. The man purifiess himself by circumcision, taking off his foreskin. The husband participates, by the rituals of his possessions, in the purificatio of his wife.
2. The ceremony of purification (6-8)
When the purification is finished, Mary, Jesus' mother, brought two pigeons to offer God. Here, the delivered woman brings a one-year-old lamb to the holocaust, and a pigeon or a turtledove for sin. When we are indigent, we can bring two birds to offer God, one for the holocaust and the other for the expiation. God is merciful, so that everyone has a way to move towards God. God opens the way, when a person has the will to be forgiven.
Prayer: Lord, thank you for opening a way so that everyone can be forgiven and above all purified of our original sin.
Bottom line: You will be purified of your blood
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