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Genesis 2:7

Genesis chapter 2 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

ASV

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.

Context

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

v.7This passage

v.8And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 27:3

    (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

  • Proverbs 20:27

    The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts.

  • Numbers 27:16

    Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

  • Job 33:6

    Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

  • Hebrews 12:9

    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 Corinthians 4:7

    But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;