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Genesis 2:6
But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.
Genesis 2:6 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 2:6 in other translations
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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In context
3 And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
6 But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.
7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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