Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God molded a human being out of dust taken from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living being.
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In Context
6A mist used to rise from the earth and water all the surface of the ground.
8The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, far in the East; and placed the human he had formed there.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat bread, until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return!”
Genesis 7:22everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the faintest breath of life, died.
Psalms 103:14for well he knows our frame, he remembers 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 →