Childbirth
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Also: lying-in, stormy labor, her travail.
Childbearing was once generally looked upon as rendering a woman dangerous and unclean. 84:4.6
A child has been in existence about nine months before it experiences birth. 103:2.1
Among the unmixed tribes, childbirth was comparatively easy, occupying only two or three hours; it is seldom so easy among the mixed races. 76:4.2 84:4.7
A woman is indeed sorrowful in the hour of her travail, but when she is once delivered of her child, she immediately forgets her anguish in the joy of the knowledge that a man has been born into the world. 180:6.7
Childbirth was not a painful or distressing ordeal to Fonta, the first human woman, and her immediate progeny. 63:4.2
There was a Mosaic ordinance which directed that a mother, after the passing of a certain period of time, should present herself at the temple for purification 122:9.1 122:10.2
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Childbirth “unclean” 84:4.6 — Lv 12:2-8; Lk 2:22-24.
- Spiritual “birth” day 103:2.1 — Jn 1:13; Jn 3:3-8.
- Must die but will rise 180:6.7 — Mt 16:21; Mt 17:22-23a; Mt 20:17-19; Mt 27:63; Mk 8:31; Mk 9:31; Mk 10:32-34; Lk 9:22,31,43b-44; Lk 18:31-33; Lk 24:7,46; Jn 14:28a; Jn 20:9.
- Sorrow turns to rejoicing 180:6.7 — Jn 16:19-22.
- Ask in Jesus' name 180:6.7 — Jn 16:23-24,26.
- Firstborn to God 122:9.1 — Ex 13:1-2; Ex 22:29-30; Nm 3:13; Nm 8:16-17.
- Redemption 122:9.1 — Ex 13:15; Ex 34:20; Nm 18:15-16; Lk 2:22-24.
- Purification of puerperal women 122:9.1 — Lv 2:2-3,6,8; Lk 2:22-24.
- Two Rites 122:9.1 — Lk 2:21-24.
- Joseph “poor” 122:10.2 — Lv 12:2,6-8; Lk 2:22-24.
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