The next thing to be kept clean the body a pure body (Read Gen. 1:28). Child-birth was to be a joy and blessing. But that was before the fall of Adam and Eve. Now read Genesis 3:15 and see the result of the sin Eve had committed. Sin never goes unpunished. The birth of a child, because of sin by our first parents, now made the woman unclean under the law. The Lord Jesus has borne that curse of the law for us, so that we are not under the law but under grace (Gal. 3:13; 1 Cor. 6:18-20).