8. Forasmuch as you quicken the body that is fashioned now in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months does your workmanship endure your creature which is created in her.
9. But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept by your keeping: and when the womb gives up again that which has grown in it,
10. you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts,
11. that the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you shall order it in your mercy.
12. Yes, you have brought it up in your righteousness, and nurtured it in your law, and corrected it with your judgement.
13. And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.
14. If therefore you shall lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?