Genesis 2:7
Then Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
6Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that it watered the surface of the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die [EUP], and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so when you die and are buried your body will decay and become soil again.”
Genesis 7:22On the land, ◄everything that breathed/every living thing► died.
Numbers 27:16“Yahweh, you are the God who directs the spirits of all people. So please appoint a new leader for the Israeli people.
Job 27:3as long as God’s Spirit enables me to breathe,
Job 33:6“God considers that you, and I are both equal; he formed both of us from clay.
Psalms 103:14He knows what our bodies are like; he remembers that he created us from dirt, and so we quickly fail to do what pleases him [MET].
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 →