Genesis 2:7

God forms man from dust and breathes life into him, so he becomes a living being. Humanity is both earthy and uniquely animated by God's breath.

Cross-references · 27

• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
• 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
• Isa 64:8But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
• Acts 17:25neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
• Job 27:3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
• Gen 7:22All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
• Eccl 3:20–21All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
• Zech 12:1A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
• Ps 103:14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
• Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Rom 9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
• Isa 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
• Gen 3:23Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
• Heb 12:9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
• Prov 20:27The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
• Num 16:22They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
• Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
• Job 4:19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Ps 139:14–15I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
• Num 27:16“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
• John 20:22When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
• 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
• Eccl 3:7a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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