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Lord God brought forward the man. Dust of the ground blew into his face. The man became a breath of life to a living soul.
That is, God sent the man to irrigate. The man breathed the dust, and indeed irrigated. By doing that, the man brought a breath of life to all living creatures.
I don't argue 100% for that translation. Exegetically, I love it. Semantically, it seems no worse that the traditional one, also with some problems.
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