New Revised Standard Version
then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD God took some soil from the ground and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.

New American Bible
then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

formed man.

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 139:14,15 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well. . . .

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

of the dust.

Genesis 3:19,23 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. . . .

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Job 33:6 Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

Psalm 103:14 For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

Ecclesiastes 3:7,20 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Romans 9:20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

and breathed.

Job 27:3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

Job 33:4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

John 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost.

Acts 17:25 Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:

nostrils.

Genesis 7:22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

a living.

Numbers 16:22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

Numbers 27:16 May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:

Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.

Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

1 Corinthians 15:45 The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

Hebrews 12:9 Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?