Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
King James Version
In Context
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Numbers 27:16Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job 33:6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Psalms 103:14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth 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 →