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Genesis 2:6

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but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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Genesis 2:6 in other translations

but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 2:6 · World English Bible

Genesis 2:6 in context

  1. 4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
  2. 5And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
  3. 6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
  4. 7And 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.
  5. 8And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.