Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[a](B) from the dust(C) of the ground(D) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(E) of life,(F) and the man became a living being.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).

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.

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.(A)

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16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars(A)—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[a] be.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:5 Or seed

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

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I will make your descendants(A) as numerous as the stars in the sky(B) and will give them all these lands,(C) and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b](D)

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  1. Genesis 26:4 Or seed
  2. Genesis 26:4 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

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You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

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29 When you hide your face,(A)
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.(B)

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29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

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