1 I was swift on my feet like a deer, and my father Jacob assigned me to carry all his messages, and he blessed me as a deer. 2 Just as the potter knows the vessel, how much it is to hold, and brings clay accordingly, so the Lord makes the body to match the spirit, and implants the spirit according to the body's capacity. 3 The one does not fall short of the other by even a third of a hair, for all creation was made by weight, measure, and standard. 4 As the potter knows the use of each vessel, what it is fit for, so the Lord knows the body, how long it will continue in goodness and when it will turn to evil. 5 There is no inclination or thought that the Lord does not know, for he created every person in his own image. 6 As a person's strength, so is his work; as his mind, so is his skill; as his purpose, so is his achievement; as his heart, so is his mouth; as his eye, so is his sleep; as his soul, so is his word, whether in the law of the Lord or in the works of Beliar. 7 Just as there is a division between light and darkness, between seeing and hearing, so there is a division between one person and another, and between one woman and another; and it cannot be said that one is like the other in face or in mind. 8 For God made everything good and in order: the five senses in the head, and he attached the neck to the head, adding hair as well for beauty and glory; then the heart for understanding, the belly for waste, the stomach for grinding food, the windpipe for taking in breath, the liver for anger, the gall for bitterness, the spleen for laughter, the kidneys for prudence, the muscles of the loins for power, the lungs for breathing in, the loins for strength, and so on. 9 So, my children, let everything you do be done in order, with good intent, in the fear of God, and do nothing in a disorderly way, out of contempt or at the wrong time. 10 If you tell the eye to hear, it cannot; and in the same way, while you are in darkness you cannot do the works of light.⁠a