The Creation of the World

In the (A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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then the Lord God formed the man of (A)dust from the ground and (B)breathed into his (C)nostrils the breath of life, and (D)the man became a living creature.

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Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[a](B) from the dust(C) of the ground(D) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(E) of life,(F) and the man became a living being.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 The 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).

(A)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    (B)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    (C)we are all the work of your hand.

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)

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24 Thus says the Lord, (A)your Redeemer,
    (B)who formed you from the womb:
(C)“I am the Lord, who made all things,
    (D)who alone stretched out the heavens,
    who spread out the earth by myself,

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Jerusalem to Be Inhabited

24 “This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer,(A) who formed(B) you in the womb:(C)

I am the Lord,
    the Maker of all things,
    who stretches out the heavens,(D)
    who spreads out the earth(E) by myself,

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23 and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, (A)there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, (B)keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

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23 and said:

Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like(A) you in heaven above or on earth below—you who keep your covenant of love(B) with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.

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(A)The Lord has made everything for its purpose,
    even (B)the wicked for the day of trouble.

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The Lord works out everything to its proper end(A)
    even the wicked for a day of disaster.(B)

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