Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah God formeth the man — dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

8And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou [art], and unto dust thou turnest back.'

Genesis 7:22all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit — of all that [is] in the dry land — have died.

Numbers 27:16'Jehovah — God of the spirits of all flesh — appoint a man over the company,

Job 27:3For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

Job 33:6Lo, I [am], according to thy word, for God, From the clay I — I also, have been formed.

Psalms 103:14For He hath known our frame, Remembering 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 →

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