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These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

Another Account of the Creation

In the day that the Lord[a] God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground,(A) but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground— then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground[b] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.4 Heb YHWH, as in other places where “Lord” is spelled with capital letters (see also Ex 3.14–15 with notes)
  2. 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man