All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
 

7:22 breath of life. The “breath (Hebrew neshamah) of life” is clearly stated here to be a component of animal life as well as human life. Thus animals possess “spirit,” but not the “image of God.”

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