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).

45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[a];(A) the last Adam,(B) a life-giving spirit.(C)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:45 Gen. 2:7

and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)

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The Spirit(A) of God has made me;(B)
    the breath of the Almighty(C) gives me life.(D)

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25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.(A)

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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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14 for he knows how we are formed,(A)
    he remembers that we are dust.(B)

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as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God(A) in my nostrils,

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47 The first man was of the dust of the earth;(A) the second man is of heaven.(B)

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22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life(A) in its nostrils died.

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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9

23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden(A) to work the ground(B) from which he had been taken.

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