Genesis 2:7

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

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.

Genesis 2:7 — American Standard Version

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Context — Genesis 2

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4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

5And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7And 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.

8And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

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