⁵Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth^a and no plant had yet sprung up,^t for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth^u and there was no one to work the ground, ⁶but streams^b came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷Then the Lord God formed^v a man^c^w from the dust^x of the ground^y and breathed into his nostrils the breath^z of life,^a and the man became a living being.^b

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Footnotes

aOr land; also in verse 6
bOr mist
cThe 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).

Cross references

t Ge 1:11
u Job 38:28; Ps 65:9–10; Jer 10:13
v Isa 29:16; 43:1, 21; 44:2
wSee Ge 1:27
x Ge 3:19; 18:27; Job 4:19; 10:9; 17:16; 34:15; Ps 90:3; Ecc 3:20; 12:7
y Ge 3:23; 4:2; Ps 103:14; Jer 18:6; 1 Co 15:47
zSee Ge 1:2; Job 27:3; Isa 2:22
aSee Ge 1:30; Isa 42:5; Ac 17:25
b Job 12:10; 32:8; 33:4; 34:14; Ps 104:29; Isa 57:16; Eze 37:5; 1 Co 15:45*

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

NLTNew Living Translation

neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land. Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

before any plant of the field was on earth, and before any plant of the field had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground, but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground—when Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

KJV 1900King James Version

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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