Genesis 2:4-7

The Creation of Man and Woman

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

5 When no z bush of the field 1 was yet in the land 2 and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up - for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man a to work the ground, 6 and a mist 3 was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground - 7 then the Lord God formed the man of b dust from the ground and c breathed into his d nostrils the breath of life, and e the man became a living creature.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 1:11 - 12
    And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 3:23
    Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 3:19
    By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, ...
    Genesis 3:23
    Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the ga...
    Genesis 18:27
    Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have unde...
    Psalms 103:14
    For he knows our frame; he remembers that we ar...
    Ecclesiastes 12:7
    And the dust returns to the earth as it was, an...
    1 Corinthians 15:47
    The first man was from the earth, a man of dust...
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 7:22
    Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
    Job 33:4
    The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
    Isaiah 2:22
    Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
  6. Cross References
    Job 27:3
    As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils.
  7. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:45
    Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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