Genesis 2:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written,“The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return. 21 Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly; 15 my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The Repentance of Judah This is an oracle, the LORD’s message concerning Israel: The LORD– he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person– says,
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And after he said this, he breathed on them and said,“Receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • Num 16:22 : 22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The human spirit is like the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to rip, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak.
  • Num 27:16 : 16 “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

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  • Gen 2:18-24
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    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

    19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

    20So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

  • Gen 2:8-9
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    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

    9The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

  • Gen 2:4-6
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    4The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.

    5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

    6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

  • Gen 2:15
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    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • 1 Cor 15:45
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    45So also it is written,“The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

  • Gen 3:19-20
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    19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

    20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

  • Ezek 37:5-6
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    5This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

    6I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Eccl 12:7
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    7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

  • Job 12:10
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    10in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

  • Gen 3:22-23
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    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

    23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

  • Job 33:4
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    4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

  • 1 Cor 15:47
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    47The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

  • Ezek 37:8-10
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    8As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

    9He said to me,“Prophesy to the breath,– prophesy, son of man– and say to the breath:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”

    10So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Gen 7:22
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    22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

  • Gen 1:24
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    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

  • Ps 104:29-30
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    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

    30When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

  • Isa 42:5
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    5This is what the true God, the LORD, says– the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

  • Eccl 3:21
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    21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

  • Job 27:3
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    3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

  • Job 32:8
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    8But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

  • Zech 12:1
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    1The Repentance of Judah This is an oracle, the LORD’s message concerning Israel: The LORD– he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person– says,