Genesis 1:11-12

New International Version

¹¹Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation:^(A) seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.^(B)” And it was so.^(C) ¹²The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds^(D) and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.^(E)

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Genesis 2:7-9

New International Version

⁷Then 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)

⁸Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;^(H) and there he put the man he had formed. ⁹The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees^(I) that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life^(J) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^(K)

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Footnotes

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).