⁴And as for your birth, on the day you were born^d your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not thoroughly washed clean with water,^e and you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt,^f and you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth.^g ⁵No eye took pity on you^h to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown into the open fieldⁱ in their despising of you on the day you were born.^j

⁶“ ‘And I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, “Live! ⁷Grow up;^k I will make you like a plant of the field.” And you grew up, and you became tall and reached full womanhood.^l Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare.

⁸“ ‘And I passed by you, and I saw you, and look, your time of lovemaking had come,^m and so I spread out my hem over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered intoⁿ a covenant with you,’ declares^o the Lord Yahweh, ‘and you became mine.^p ⁹And I washed you with water, and I rinsed off your blood from on you, and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰And I clothed you with beautiful finished cloth, and I put sandals on you of fine leather, and I bound you in fine linen, and I covered you with costly fabric.

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Footnotes

dLiterally “on the day of being born you”
eLiterally “with water not you were cleansed for cleansing”
fLiterally “being rubbed with salt you were not rubbed with salt”
gLiterally “being wrapped in strips of cloth not you were wrapped in strips of cloth”
hLiterally “not took pity on you an eye”
iLiterally “to the face of the field”
jLiterally “on the day of being born you”
kOr “A myriad I have made you”
lLiterally “ornament of ornaments”
mLiterally “your time was the time of lovemaking”
nHebrew “in”
oLiterally “declaration of”
pLiterally “and you were to me”