Leviticus 12:4

“And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days, etc.] That is, so many more, in all forty; for though at the end of seven days she was in some respects free from her uncleanness, yet not altogether, but remained in the blood of her purifying, or in the purifying of her blood, which was more and more purified, and completely at the end of forty days: so with the Persians it is said, a new mother must avoid everything for forty days; when that time is passed, she may wash and be purified f419; and which perhaps Zoroastres, the founder of the Persian religion, at least the reformer of it, being a Jew, as is by some supposed, he might take it from hence: she shall…”

“The Levitical law ascribed impurity exclusively to the mother, in no degree to the Child. return to 'Top of Page'”

“In the blood of her purifying - In her polluted and separated estate; for the word blood or bloods signifies both guilt, and uncleanness, as here and elsewhere. And it is called the blood of her purifying, because by the expulsion or purgation of that blood, which is done by degrees, she is purified. No hallowed thing - She shall not eat any part of the peace - offerings which she or her husband offered, which otherwise she might have done; and, if she be a priest's wife, she shall not eat any of the tythes or first fruits, or part of the hallowed meats, which at other times she together with her husband might eat. Leviticus 12:5”

“12:4 These thirty-three days are added to the seven previous days (12:2, 3) to yield a total of forty days to complete the mother’s period of purification.”

“Lev 15:25-28; Hag 2:13; Luk 2:22, Luk 2:23 Leviticus 12:5”