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Genesis 2:7

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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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  1. Genesis 2:5

    And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

  2. Genesis 2:6

    But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

  3. Genesis 2:8

    And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

  4. Genesis 2:9

    And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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