Genesis 2:7
And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
6But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth.
8And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.
Genesis 7:22And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died.
Numbers 27:16Let the Lord God of spirits and of all flesh look out for a man over this congregation,
Job 27:3Verily, while my breath is yet in me, 1 And the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils, 1
Job 33:6Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: 1 We have been formed out of the same substance. 1
Psalms 103:14He makes grass to grow for the cattle, 1 And green herb for the service of men, 1 To bring bread out of the earth; 1
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 →