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Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it [C there is wordplay between “ground” (adama) and “man” (adam)]. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

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Then Adonai, God, formed a person [a] from the dust of the ground [b] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 Hebrew: adam
  2. Genesis 2:7 Hebrew: adamah