Genesis 2:7
So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life—and man became a living soul.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6but, a vapour, went up from the earth,—and watered all the face of the ground.
8And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east,—and put there the man whom he had formed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because therefrom, wast thou taken,—For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.
Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground died.
Numbers 27:16Let Yahweh, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly;
Job 27:3All the while my inspiration is in me, and the spirit of GOD is in my nostrils,
Job 33:6Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!
Psalms 103:14For, he, knoweth how we are formed, He is mindful that, dust, we are.
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 →