Genesis 2:7 - 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.

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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.

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.

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

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

Genesis 2:6

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

Genesis 3:19

in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:23

therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Genesis 7:22

all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Job 33:6

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Job 4:19

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth?

Psalm 100:3

Know ye that the LORD he is God: It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 103:14

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, Searching all the inward parts of the belly.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was taken in their pits, Of whom we said, Under his shadow We shall live among the heathen.

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

Ezekiel 37:6

and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

Numbers 16:22

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Numbers 27:16

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

John 20:22

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

Acts 17:25

neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Romans 9:20

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

1 Corinthians 15:45

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?