Genesis 2:7

New American Bible - revised edition

then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:6

but a stream was welling up out of the earth and watering all the surface of the ground—

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Genesis 3:23

The Lord God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 7:22

Everything on dry land with the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Job 27:3

So long as I still have life breath in me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Job 33:4

For the spirit of God made me, the breath of the Almighty keeps me alive.

Job 33:6

Look, I am like you before God, I too was pinched from clay.

Job 4:19

How much more with those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than a moth!

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord is God, he made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the flock he shepherds.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust.

Proverbs 20:27

A lamp from the Lord is human life-breath; it searches through the inmost being.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the life breath returns to God who gave 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

As for you, stop worrying about mortals, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for of what worth are they?

Isaiah 64:8

Do not be so very angry, Lord, do not remember our crimes forever; look upon us, who are all your people!

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed—our very lifebreath!— was caught in their snares, He in whose shade we thought to live among the nations.

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Listen! I will make breath enter you so you may come to life.

Ezekiel 37:6

I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow over you, cover you with skin, and put breath into you so you may come to life. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle: The word of the Lord concerning Israel—oracle of the Lord, who spreads out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and fashions the human spirit within:

Numbers 16:22

But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”

Numbers 27:16

“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humanity, set over the community someone

John 20:22

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit.

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is made say to its maker, “Why have you created me so?”

1 Corinthians 15:45

So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly dwelling, a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Hebrews 12:9

Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?