Genesis 2:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
  • Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  • Num 27:16 : 16 Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

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    18And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

    19And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

    20And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

    21And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:

    22and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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    4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

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    6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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    15And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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    45So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

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    19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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    7and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

  • Job 12:10
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    10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

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    4The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.

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