• The Marvelous Womb
    Awake!—1974 | February 8

    • “My bones were not hidden from you When I was made in secret, When I was woven in the lowest parts of the earth.”

      In the sixth week the embryo gains a complete skeleton, not yet of bone, but of flexible cartilage, which later turns to bone. The psalmist speaks of the ‘weaving’ of sinews, muscles, tissues​—the thousands of different ‘threads’ that are woven into a most intricate pattern of color, beauty and function. It is done in the complete darkness of the womb, as hidden and mysterious to men as the depths of the earth.