Genesis 2:7

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh God formed man from 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 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 spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
  • 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 the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. 15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is 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 paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
  • John 20:22 : 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Num 16:22 : 22 They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  • Num 27:16 : 16 "Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

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    20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

    21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

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    23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

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