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Gen 2:7 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

formed man		Psa 100:3; Psa 139:14,15; Isa 64:8
of the dust		Heb. the dust of, etc.
dust		Gen 3:19,23; Job 4:19; Job 33:6; Psa 103:14; Ecc 3:7,20; Ecc 12:7; Isa 64:8; Rom 9:20; 1Cr 15:47; 2Cr 4:7; 2Cr 5:1
and breathed		Job 27:3; Job 33:4; Jhn 20:22; Act 17:25
nostrils		Gen 7:22; Ecc 3:21; Isa 2:22
a living		Num 16:22; Num 27:16; Pro 20:27; Zec 12:1; 1Cr 15:45; Hbr 12:9

Correlating Passages

formed man

	Psa 100:3	Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
	Psa 139:14	I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
	Psa 139:15	My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
	Isa 64:8	But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.

dust

	Gen 3:19	In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
	Gen 3:23	Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
	Job 4:19	How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
	Job 33:6	Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
	Psa 103:14	For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
	Ecc 3:7	A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
	Ecc 3:20	All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
	Ecc 12:7	Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
	Isa 64:8	But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
	Rom 9:20	Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?
	1Cr 15:47	The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven.
	2Cr 4:7	But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
	2Cr 5:1	For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

and breathed

	Job 27:3	All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;
	Job 33:4	The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
	Jhn 20:22	And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
	Act 17:25	Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

nostrils

	Gen 7:22	All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
	Ecc 3:21	Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
	Isa 2:22	Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

a living

	Num 16:22	And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
	Num 27:16	Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
	Pro 20:27	The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
	Zec 12:1	The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
	1Cr 15:45	And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.
	Hbr 12:9	Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 2:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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