Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
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6But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.
8And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 7:22Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
Numbers 27:16Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,
Job 27:3(For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
Job 33:6See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.
Psalms 103:14For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:5-8
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the… Read the whole commentary →