⁵ Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth^[a] and no plant had yet sprung up,^(A) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth^(B) and there was no one to work the ground, ⁶ but streams^[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷ Then the Lord God formed^(C) a man^[c](D) from the dust^(E) of the ground^(F) and breathed into his nostrils the breath^(G) of life,^(H) and the man became a living being.^(I)