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17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

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21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

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21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

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29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work powerful deeds?

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29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?

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12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye—
    the Lord has made them both.(A)

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12 Ears that hear and eyes that see—
    the Lord has made them both.(A)

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13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(A)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(B)
15     My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(C)
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
    all the days that were formed for me,
    when none of them as yet existed.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 139.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

13 For you created my inmost being;(A)
    you knit me together(B) in my mother’s womb.(C)
14 I praise you(D) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,(E)
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made(F) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together(G) in the depths of the earth.(H)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained(I) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

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He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?(A)

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Does he who fashioned the ear not hear?
    Does he who formed the eye not see?(A)

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(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)(A)

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(Formerly in Israel, if someone went to inquire(A) of God, they would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a seer.)(B)

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