Genesis 2:7
The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being.
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6Dew came up from the earth and made the whole surface of the ground wet.
8The Lord planted a garden in Eden, in the east. There he put the man Adam he had created.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
Genesis 7:22Everything on land that breathed, died.
Numbers 27:16“May the Lord, the God who gives life to all living beings, choose a man to lead the Israelites
Job 27:3for as long as I have life, while the breath of God remains in my nostrils—
Job 33:6Look, before God we are both the same. I was also made from a piece of clay.
Psalms 103:14For he knows how we are made; he remembers 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 →