dust of the ground

The Hebrew in Genesis 2:7 that is translated by many English versions as “dust of the ground” or similar is translated in the English translation by Robert Alter (pub. 2004) as “humus” to recreate the pun in the Hebrew where ‘adam is “human” and ‘adamah is “soil.”

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