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Man/Ground/Deep relationship (Genesis 2:5-7). Each of the three have a relationship with the other, being created from, being protected from, caring for, etc...
v.5 man (Hebrew "Adam") to till the ground (Hebrew "Adamah")
v.6 waters of the deep water the ground ("Adamah")
v.7 man ("Adam") formed from dust of ground ("Adamah")
Waters of the deep ("edh" [ 'd"]) similar to Mesopotamian Id - a god who is a guardian of the Deep
Dust (apher) & Clay (homer), often used together. Ashes (epher) is also used with clay.
Assyrian goddess Aruru "washed her hands, nipped off clay , cast it up the ground, the hero Enkidu she built."
Job 4:19 "those who dwell in houses of clay (human beings)"
"Thou has made me of [literally, 'as'] clay" (Job 10:8 & 9)
"shall the potter be regarded as the clay" (Isa. 29:16)
"Woe to him who strives his maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of
the earth! shall the clay say to him who fashions it, what are you
making" (Isa 45:9)
"We are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand" (Isa 64:8)