Dict: easton - Birth

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Birth @ As soon as a child was born it was washed, and rubbed with salt kjv@Ezekiel:16:4), and then swathed with bandages kjv@Job:38:9; kjv@Luke:2:7 kjv@Luke:2:12). A Hebrew mother remained forty days in seclusion after the birth of a son, and after the birth of a daughter double that number of days. At the close of that period she entered into the tabernacle or temple and offered up a sacrifice of purification kjv@Leviticus:12:1-8; kjv@Luke:2:22). A son was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, being thereby consecrated to God kjv@Genesis:17:10-12; comp. kjv@Romans:4:11). Seasons of misfortune are likened to the pains of a woman in travail, and seasons of prosperity to the joy that succeeds child-birth kjv@Isaiah:13:8; kjv@Jeremiah:4:31; kjv@John:16:21-22). The natural birth is referred to as the emblem of the new birth kjv@John:3:3-8; kjv@Galatians:6:15; kjv@Titus:3:5, etc.).