Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper

in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

everyone in is a theologian. Hi friends, and welcome back to Verity Podcast.

Thanks for your grace, as we had a little bit of an unforeseen break between this

episode and the prayer series. We had so much going on with the launch of the

fall collection, the new Leviticus Bible study, our new Quick Theologies,

Labor Day, everything, so busy. I didn't even get a chance to sit down and

record, especially in a timely fashion. So we are finally getting you this new

episode as we go into the fall. I am excited to kind of take our series back to

deep dives into theology and theological topics, and this week we're actually

going to take a closer look at a portion of Leviticus. I thought it was

appropriate since we launched the verse by verse Leviticus Bible study in the

every woman of theologian shop. We're going to look at a topic I have been

asked about frequently. It is in Leviticus 12, and it's about purification after

childbirth. So many people wonder why did a woman have to be purified after child

birth, and why was it a longer period of time, double period of time, to the

period for a boy. If you had a girl, you would have to be purified and you know

go through this ritual for a lot longer than if you had a boy. And so in this

episode, we're going to talk a little bit about that, and I'm going to use some

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