Genesis 2:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again. 21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
  • Num 16:22 : 22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;
  • Num 27:16 : 16 Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

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    21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

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

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