Genesis 2:7
Then 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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'
Genesis 7:22all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.
Numbers 27:16'Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as thou art; I also am formed out of the clay.
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 →