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But streams of water were coming up from the earth. The water made all the top of the ground wet.

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.

The Lord God planted a garden. It was in the east, in a place called Eden.[a] God took the man that he had made and he put him in the garden.

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  1. 2:8 ‘in the east’ means that it was east of the land of Canaan. Canaan was the land that God gave to his people as their home much later on.

but streams[a] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[b](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)

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;(H) and there he put the man he had formed.

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  1. Genesis 2:6 Or mist
  2. 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).