But a mist went up from the earth, and watered all the earth.

¶ The Lord God also [a]made the man [b]of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, (A)and the man was a living soul.

And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in [c]Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 Or, formed.
  2. Genesis 2:7 He showeth whereof man’s body was created, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.
  3. Genesis 2:8 This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.

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