Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

A Conservative Version

And 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.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

then the Lord God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].

Bible in Basic English

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

when Yahweh God formed the man [of] dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

NET Bible

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life - and man became a living soul.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the Lord

Usage: 0

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

of the dust
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

of

among, with, from, that not, since, after, at, by, whether
Usage: 0

the ground
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

and breathed
נפח 
Naphach 
Usage: 12

the breath
נשׁמה 
N@shamah 
Usage: 24

of life
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

and man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

Devotionals

Devotionals about Genesis 2:7

Images Genesis 2:7

Prayers for Genesis 2:7

Context Readings

The Generations Of Heaven And Earth

6 And a vapor shall go up from the earth and it watered all the face of the earth. 7 And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul. 8 And Jehovah God will plant a garden in Eden from the east; and he will put there the man which he will form.



Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

Job 33:4

The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty will cause me to live.

1 Corinthians 15:45

So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive.

Psalm 103:14

For he knew our formation; he remembered that we are dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Jehovah, thou our Father; we the clay and thou forming us; and we all the work of thy hand.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Genesis 3:23

And Jehovah God will send. him forth from the garden of Eden to work the earth which he was taken from there.

Genesis 7:22

All which the breath of the spirit of life in the nostrils of all which is in the dry land died.

Job 27:3

For all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nose;

Isaiah 2:22

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

Acts 17:25

Nor is served by men's hands, standing in need of anything, he giving to all life, and breath, and all things.

Numbers 16:22

And they shall fall upon their faces, and they will say, God, the God of the spirits for all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry against all the assembly.

Numbers 27:16

Will Jehovah, the God of the spirits to all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly,

Job 4:19

Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.

Job 33:6

Behold, I am according to thy mouth for God: from clay was I also broken off

Psalm 100:3

Know ye that Jehovah he is God: he made us and not we his people and the sheep of his feeding.

Psalm 139:14-15

I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly.

Proverbs 20:27

The light of Jehovah is the breath of man, searching all the chambers of the belly.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak:

Ecclesiastes 3:20-21

All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.

Zechariah 12:1

The Lifting up of the word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, stretching forth the heavens and founding the earth, and forming the spirit of man in the midst of him.

John 20:22

And having said this, he inspired, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:

Romans 9:20

Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hest thou made me so

2 Corinthians 4:7

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

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

Hebrews 12:9

Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

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