“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.”
“Formavit igitur Dominus Deus hominem de limo terræ, et inspiravit in faciem ejus spiraculum vitæ, et factus est homo in animam viventem.”
“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. of the dust: Heb. dust of the ground”
“Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”
“Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
“And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Or, formed. 1 Cor. 15:45 He showeth whereof man’s body was created, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.
Or, formed. 1 Cor. 15:45 He showeth whereof man’s body was created, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.
Breath of life or a soul, created out of nothing, and infused into the body to give it life. (Haydock)
III. A more particular account of the creation of man, v. 7. Man is a little world, consisting of heaven and earth, soul and body. Now here we have an account of the origin of both and the putting of both together: let us seriously consider it, and say, to our Creator's praise, We are fearfully and wonderfully made, Ps 139 14. Elihu, in the patriarchal age, refers to this history when he says (Job 33 6), I also am formed out of the clay, and (v. 4), The breath of the Almighty hath given me life, and (ch. 32 8), There is a spirit in man. Observe then,
Here we have, I. The making of the woman, to be a help-meet for Adam. This was done upon the sixth day, as was also the placing of Adam in paradise, though it is here mentioned after an account of the seventh day's rest; but what was said in general (ch. i. 27), that God made man male and female, is more distinctly related here. Observe, 1. That Adam was first formed, then Eve (1 Tim. ii. 13), and she was made of the man, and for the man (1 Cor. xi. 8, 9), all which are urged there as reasons for the humility, modesty, silence, and submissiveness, of that sex in general, and particularly the subjection and reverence which wives owe to their own husbands.
from time to time, by God’s appointment, a vapour, or cloud, which going up into the air, was turned into rain, and fell down again to the earth from whence it arose; whereby the earth was softened, and disposed both to the nourishment of those plants or trees that were created, and to the production of new plants in a natural and ordinary way. But these words may be otherwise understood, the copulative and, here rendered but, being put for the disjunctive or, as it is Exo 21:15, Exo 21:17, Job 6:22, Job 8:3, and in other places. Or, the negative particle not may be understood out of the foregoing clause, as it is usual in the Hebrew language, as Psa 1:5, Psa 9:17, Psa 44:19, Psa 50:8, Isa 28:27-28. And so these words may be joined with the foregoing, and both translated in this manner, There was no rain, nor a man to till the ground, or (or nor, for both come to one thing) so much as which went up from the earth, and watered (as afterwards was usual and natural) the whole face of the ground.
“And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.”
“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.”
“And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.”
“And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.”