Psalm 139:13-16

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JPS Tanakh

¹³ It was You who created my conscience;^[a]

You fashioned me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I praise You,

for I am awesomely, wondrously made;

Your work is wonderful;

I know it very well.

¹⁵ My frame was not concealed from You

when I was shaped in a hidden place,

knit together in the recesses of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed limbs;

they were all recorded in Your book;

in due time they were formed,

to the very last one of them.

[a] Lit. “kidneys.”

KJV

¹³ For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
¹⁴ I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
¹⁵ My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

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Created, Formed and Made

made v 14&15 — עָשָׂה asah

formed v 15 — יָצַר (yatzar) - the potter's word.

See also Theistic Embryology.