Genesis 2:7
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
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6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
Genesis 7:22All living creatures who lived on the land, who breathed the breath of life through their noses, died.
Numbers 27:16“May you, Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all humanity, appoint a man over the community,
Job 27:3while my life is yet in me, 1 and the breath from God is in my nostrils, 1 this is what I will do. 1
Job 33:6See, I am just as you are in God's sight; 1 I also have been formed out of the clay. 1
Psalms 103:14For he knows how we are formed; 1 he knows that we are dust. 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 →