Genesis 2:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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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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.

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.

Genesis 2:7 Cross References

Genesis 1:27

And 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 the spirit of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Job 27:3

(For my life is yet whole 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 giveth me life.

Job 33:6

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

Job 4:19

How much more 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 we are his; 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 lamp of the LORD, Searching all the innermost parts of the belly.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit 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 nations.

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus saith the Lord GODunto 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 concerning Israel. Thus 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, appoint 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 he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself 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 didst thou make me thus?

1 Corinthians 15:45

So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

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;

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a 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 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?