Genesis 2:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we `are' dust.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven;
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?
  • Gen 7:22 : 22 all in whose nostrils `is' breath of a living spirit -- of all that `is' in the dry land -- have died.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know that Jehovah He `is' God, He made us, and we are His, His people -- and the flock of His pasture.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?
  • Ps 139:14-15 : 14 I confess Thee, because that `with' wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful `are' Thy works, And my soul is knowing `it' well. 15 My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Lo, I `am', according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
  • John 20:22 : 22 and this having said, he breathed on `them', and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;
  • Job 4:19 : 19 Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation `is' in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
  • Num 16:22 : 22 and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh -- the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'
  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The breath of man `is' a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
  • Eccl 3:7 : 7 A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.
  • Num 27:16 : 16 `Jehovah -- God of the spirits of all flesh -- appoint a man over the company,

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    18And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

    19And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that `is' its name.

    20And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper -- as his counterpart.

    21And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead.

    22And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

    23and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

    24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • Gen 2:8-9
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    8And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

    9and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 2:4-6
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    4These `are' births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

    5and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

    6and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

    27And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

    28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1This `is' an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

    2a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.

  • Gen 2:15
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    15And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

  • 1 Cor 15:45
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    45so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,

  • Gen 3:19-20
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    19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

    20And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

  • Ezek 37:5-6
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    5Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived,

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  • Eccl 12:7
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    7And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

  • Job 12:10
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    10In whose hand `is' the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

  • Gen 3:22-23
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    22And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --

    23Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

  • Job 33:4
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    4The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.

  • 1 Cor 15:47
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    47The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven;

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

  • Ezek 37:8-10
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    8And I beheld, and lo, on them `are' sinews, and flesh hath come up, and cover them doth skin over above -- and spirit there is none in them.

    9And He saith unto me: `Prophesy unto the Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and thou hast said unto the Spirit: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: From the four winds come in, O Spirit, and breathe on these slain, and they do live.'

    10And I have prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit cometh into them, and they live, and stand on their feet -- a very very great force.

  • Gen 1:1-2
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    1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

    2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

    15Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

  • Gen 7:22
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    22all in whose nostrils `is' breath of a living spirit -- of all that `is' in the dry land -- have died.

  • Gen 1:24
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    24And God saith, `Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

  • Ps 104:29-30
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    29Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

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  • Isa 42:5
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  • Eccl 3:21
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    21Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?

  • Job 27:3
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    3For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

  • Job 32:8
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    8Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

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    1The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.