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Instead, underground water would come up from the earth and water the entire surface of the ground.

Then Yahweh Elohim formed the man from the dust of the earth[a] and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.

Yahweh Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the east. That’s where he put the man whom he had formed.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 There is a play on words here between Hebrew ʾadam (man) and ʾadamah (earth).

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