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Genesis 2:6

Genesis 2:6 is verse 6 of Genesis chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

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Genesis 2:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

6 But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 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.

8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

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