Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6But a spring rose out the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Genesis 7:22And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
Numbers 27:16May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:
Job 27:3As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
Job 33:6Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
Psalms 103:14for he 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 →