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Then Yahweh Elohim formed the man from the dust of the earth[a] and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 There is a play on words here between Hebrew ʾadam (man) and ʾadamah (earth).

19 By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat
    until you return to the ground,
        because you were taken from it.
You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

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23 So Yahweh Elohim sent the man out of the Garden of Eden to farm the ground from which the man had been formed.

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19 How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses
    that have their foundation in the dust.
        Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

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Indeed, I stand in front of El as you do.
    I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.

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