Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 Mist came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 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. 8 Now Jehovah God planted a garden in the east, in Eden. He put the man he had formed there.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God has made me. The Breath of the Almighty gives me life.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written: The first man Adam was made a living being. The last Adam became a life giving spirit!

Psalm 103:14

For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.

1 Corinthians 15:47

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

Genesis 3:23

Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 7:22

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

Job 27:3

As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

Acts 17:25

Men's hands do not serve him as if he needed anything. He gives life and breath to all.

Numbers 16:22

Immediately, they bowed with their faces touching the ground and said: O God, you are the God who gives the breath of life to everyone! If one man sins, will you be angry with the entire congregation?

Numbers 27:16

O Jehovah our God, source of all life, appoint, I pray, a man who can lead the people

Job 4:19

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

Job 33:6

I am just like you before God. I too have been taken from clay!

Psalm 100:3

Know that Jehovah is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 139:14-15

I will praise you, for in an awesome way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and I know this very well.

Proverbs 20:27

The breath of man is the candle of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of him.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

There is a time to tear and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak.

Ecclesiastes 3:20-21

All go to one place. All came from the dust and all return to dust.

Zechariah 12:1

The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?

John 20:22

After he said this he breathed on them and said: Receive Holy Spirit.

Romans 9:20

Yes, but you, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why have you made me this way? (Isaiah 45:9)

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the power beyond what is normal may be from God, and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh that corrected us, and we gave them respect. Shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

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