創世記 2:6 註釋：Rashi, Sforno, Rabbeinu Bahya & Chizkuni

ואד יעלה AND A MIST WENT UP — This has reference to the creation of Adam: viz., He caused the deep to rise and filled the clouds with water to moisten the dust, and man was created. It is like a kneader of bread who first pours in water and afterwards kneads the dough — similarly here: He first watered the ground and afterwards He formed man (Genesis Rabbah 14:1).

ואד יעלה מן הארץ, on the day they were completed, i.e. at the end of the sixth “day” a vapour rose from the earth equivalent to beneficial dew which irrigated the earth and enabled it to bring forth further vegetation without the help of rain or man’s labour.

ואד יעלה מן הארץ, “and a mist would rise from the earth.” The plain meaning is that these words refer to the steam which rises from the moisture of the various concentrations of water on earth. As they usually contain some solid particles from earth, the Torah called it אד “mist.” Seeing that the rain results from this moist mist and the clouds accept it, the cloud itself was called אד as we find in Job 36,27 יזוקו מטר לאדו, “which cluster into rain, from His mist.”