Genesis 2:7 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. [I Cor. 15:45-49.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

⁷ the LORD God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils. The human came to life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

English Standard Version 2016

⁷ then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 2:7 Cross References

Genesis 1:27

And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

Genesis 2:6

But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:23

And so the Lord God sent him away from the Paradise of enjoyment, in order to work the earth from which he was taken.

Genesis 7:22

and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Job 33:6

Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

Job 4:19

How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Psalm 100:3

I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals.

Psalm 103:14

producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of a man is a lamp to the Lord, which investigates all the secrets of the inner self.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to be silent, and a time to speak.

Isaiah 2:22

Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

Lamentations 4:20

RES. The spirit of our mouth, Christ the Lord, has been captured by our sins; to him, we said, "In your shadow, we will live among the Gentiles."

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.

Ezekiel 37:6

And I will set sinews upon you, and I will cause flesh to grow over you, and I will extend skin over you. And I will give you spirit, and you shall live. And you shall know that I am the Lord."

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. The Lord, stretching forth the heavens and founding the earth and forming the spirit of man within him, says:

Numbers 16:22

But they fell prone on their faces, and they said, "O most strong One, the God of the spirits of all flesh, should your anger rage against all, for the sin of one?"

Numbers 27:16

"May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, provide a man, who may be over this multitude,

John 20:22

When he had said this, he breathed on them. And he said to them: "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:25

Neither is he served by the hands of men, as if in need of anything, since it is he who gives to all things life and breath and all else.

Romans 9:20

O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: "Why have you made me this way?"

1 Corinthians 15:45

Just as it was written that the first man, Adam, was made with a living soul, so shall the last Adam be made with a spirit brought back to life.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man, being earthly, was of the earth; the second man, being heavenly, will be of heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that what is sublime may be of the power of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?