Genesis 2:7
The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
6But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.
8And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
Genesis 7:22Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died.
Numbers 27:16Let the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh appoint a man ouer the Congregation,
Job 27:3Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
Job 33:6Beholde, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay.
Psalms 103:14For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but 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 →