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but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.

(A)Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man[a] out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew words for “man” and “ground” have similar sounds.

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