John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 15:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And on the eighth day, etc.] From the cessation of her issue, and the healing of it, at least from the time she began to number for her cleansing: she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons; the same as the man that had an issue was obliged to bring. Now this is to be understood not of a woman that had an ordinary issue, or her monthly courses; for this would have been both troublesome and expensive to have brought every month, but of a woman that had laboured under an extraordinary one; though some think every menstruous woman was obliged to this offering: and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; whither the man that had an issue brought his; (see Gill on “<031514>Leviticus 15:14”).

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