Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
8The Lord 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 will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
Numbers 27:16"Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
Job 27:3(For the length of my life is still in me,and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as you are.I am also formed out of the clay.
Psalms 103:14For he knows how we are made.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 →