'Life' in the Bible

for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Then the Lord God said to the serpent:Because you have done this,you are cursed more than any livestockand more than any wild animal.You will move on your bellyand eat dust all the days of your life.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:The ground is cursed because of you.You will eat from it by means of painful laborall the days of your life.

The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

So Seth’s life lasted 912 years; then he died.

So Enosh’s life lasted 905 years; then he died.

So Kenan’s life lasted 910 years; then he died.

So Mahalalel’s life lasted 895 years; then he died.

So Jared’s life lasted 962 years; then he died.

So Enoch’s life lasted 365 years.

So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.

So Lamech’s life lasted 777 years; then he died.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils—everything on dry land died.

I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

So Noah’s life lasted 950 years; then he died.

Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”

Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.

This is the length of Abraham’s life: 175 years.

This is the length of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of them, what good is my life?”

When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them. He said, “Let’s not take his life.”

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—

And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years.

Then he blessed Joseph and said:The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,