Genesis 2:7 “Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed…”

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

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Cross references

“formed man”

Isaiah 64:8 Psalm 100:3 Psalm 139:14 Psalm 139:15

Isaiah 64:8 · BSB

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Psalm 100:3 · BSB

Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 139:14 · BSB

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Psalm 139:15 · BSB

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

“dust”

Ecclesiastes 12:7 1 Corinthians 15:47 Genesis 3:19 Psalm 103:14 Romans 9:20 Genesis 3:23

Ecclesiastes 12:7 · BSB

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

1 Corinthians 15:47 · BSB

The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

Genesis 3:19 · BSB

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Psalm 103:14 · BSB

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

Romans 9:20 · BSB

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Genesis 3:23 · BSB

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

“and breathed”

Job 33:4 Acts 17:25 Job 27:3 John 20:22

Job 33:4 · BSB

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Acts 17:25 · BSB

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Job 27:3 · BSB

as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

John 20:22 · BSB

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

“nostrils”

Genesis 7:22 Isaiah 2:22 Ecclesiastes 3:21

Genesis 7:22 · BSB

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Isaiah 2:22 · BSB

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 · BSB

Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

“a living”

1 Corinthians 15:45 Zechariah 12:1 Numbers 16:22 Proverbs 20:27 Hebrews 12:9 Numbers 27:16

1 Corinthians 15:45 · BSB

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

Zechariah 12:1 · BSB

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22 · BSB

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

Proverbs 20:27 · BSB

The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.

Hebrews 12:9 · BSB

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Numbers 27:16 · BSB

“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

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