Genesis 2:7

And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

In Context

6But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.

8Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”

Genesis 7:22and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died.

Numbers 27:16“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, provide a man, who may be over this multitude,

Job 27:3as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Job 33:6Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

Psalms 103:14producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,

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 →

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