Genesis 2:7
And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.
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6and a mist goes up from the earth, and has watered the whole face of the ground.
8And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;
Cross References
Genesis 3:19by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return.”
Genesis 7:22all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit—of all that [is] in the dry land—have died.
Numbers 27:16“YHWH, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
Job 27:3For all the while my breath [is] in me, || And the wind of God in my nostrils.
Job 33:6Behold, I [am], according to your word, for God, || I have also been formed from the clay.
Psalms 103:14For He has known our frame, || Remembering 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 →