Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[a](B) from the dust(C) of the ground(D) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(E) of life,(F) and the man became a living being.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).

Remember that you molded me like clay.(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(B)

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15 all humanity would perish(A) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.(B)

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You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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14 for he knows how we are formed,(A)
    he remembers that we are dust.(B)

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20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(A)

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(A) and death through sin,(B) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(C)

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21 For since death came through a man,(A) the resurrection of the dead(B) comes also through a man.

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27 Just as people are destined to die once,(A) and after that to face judgment,(B)

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