Biomaterial Database

The Biblical and Talmudic secret for choosing one's baby's sex. 1979

F Rosner

The Biblical verse "If a woman emits semen and bears a manchild" (Leviticus 12:2) is interpreted by the Talmudic Sages and more recent Jewish sources to mean that if a woman emits her "semen" first, she will bear a male child but if the man emits his semen first, she will bear a female child. The Sages of the Talmud thus claimed to have known the secret of determining one's baby's sex. However, whether "emitting one's semen first" refers to orgasm, ovulation, both or neither, is not clear.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007231	Infant, Newborn	An infant during the first 28 days after birth.	Neonate,Newborns,Infants, Newborn,Neonates,Newborn,Newborn Infant,Newborn Infants
D007557	Israel	A country in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon. The capital is Jerusalem.
D007599	Judaism	The monotheistic religion of the Jews based on the teachings of the Hebrew Scriptures (Torah).	Jewish Ethics,Ethics, Jewish
D011247	Pregnancy	The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.	Gestation,Pregnancies
D012068	Religion and Medicine	The interrelationship of medicine and religion.	Religiosity Coping,Spiritual Coping,Medicine and Religion,Coping, Religiosity,Coping, Spiritual,Religiosity Copings
D005260	Female		Females
D005818	Genetic Engineering	Directed modification of the gene complement of a living organism by such techniques as altering the DNA, substituting genetic material by means of a virus, transplanting whole nuclei, transplanting cell hybrids, etc.	Genetic Intervention,Engineering, Genetic,Intervention, Genetic,Genetic Interventions,Interventions, Genetic
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001633	Bible	The book composed of writings generally accepted by Christians as inspired by God and of divine authority. (Webster, 3d ed)	Scriptural Interpretation,Bibles,Interpretation, Scriptural,Interpretations, Scriptural,Scriptural Interpretations
D012743	Sex Preselection	Methods for controlling genetic SEX of offspring.	Sex Predetermination,Sex Selection,Predetermination, Sex,Preselection, Sex,Selection, Sex