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as long as my breath is in me
    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)

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  1. 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man

The spirit of God has made me,
    and the breath of the Almighty[a] gives me life.(A)

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  1. 33.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.(A)

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22 [[Turn away from mortals,
    who have only breath in their nostrils,
    for of what account are they?]][a](A)

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  1. 2.22 Gk OL lack 2.22

But truly it is the spirit in a mortal,
    the breath of the Almighty[a] that makes for understanding.(A)

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  1. 32.8 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai