Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
6But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 7:22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Numbers 27:16“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
Psalms 103:14For He knows our frame; He is mindful 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 →