7	tn Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
8	tn Heb “I knew you.” The parallelism here with “set you apart” and “appointed you” make clear that Jeremiah is speaking of his foreordination to be a prophet. For this same nuance of the Hebrew verb see Gen 18:19; Amos 3:2.

Jeremiah 1:5