(A)Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, (B)for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to [a]cultivate the ground. But a [b]mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole [c]surface of the ground. Then the Lord God formed man of (C)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and (D)man became a living [d]being.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:5 Lit work, serve
  2. Genesis 2:6 Or flow
  3. Genesis 2:6 Lit face of
  4. Genesis 2:7 Lit soul