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Genesis 2:6

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6but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.

7*Then the Lord God took some soil from the groundg and formed a manh out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

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Footnotes

  1. gground … man: The Hebrew words for “man” and “ground” have similar sounds.
  2. hground … man: The Hebrew words for “man” and “ground” have similar sounds.

Cross references

  1. *2.7: 1 Co 15:45

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

NIVNew International Version (2011)

but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.

NLTNew Living Translation

Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground—

KJV 1900King James Version

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.