Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.
8And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 7:22everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry [land], died.
Numbers 27:16Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly,
Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Job 33:6Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.
Psalms 103:14For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are 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 →