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So water[a] came up from the earth and spread over the ground. Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man.[b] He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing. Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East,[c] in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.

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  1. Genesis 2:6 water Or “a mist.”
  2. Genesis 2:7 man The Hebrew word means “man,” “people,” or the name “Adam.” It is like the word meaning “earth” or “red clay.”
  3. Genesis 2:8 East This usually means the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as far east as the Persian Gulf.

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