Verse 13

¹³He who has no inside and no outside, who has no before and no after; who is the before and the after of the world and its outside and its inside, and who is the world itself: ¹⁴him, unmanifest, beyond the reach of the senses, wearing the marks of a mortal, the cowherd woman took for her own son and bound with a cord to the mortar, as one binds an ordinary child. ¹⁵As she tied her own small wrongdoer, that cord came out two fingers short, and so the cowherd woman joined another one to it. ¹⁶What she had was short as well, so she joined on yet another; and that one too was two fingers short, and so with every binding she took up.

¹⁷So Yasoda went on joining together every cord in her house, and while the cowherd women laughed at it she smiled herself, and was amazed.