Genesis 3:19

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Summary

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

In

For dust

Genesis 2:7

Genesis 18:27

And

General references

Bible References

In

What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

For dust

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

And

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

And after my skin, even this body , is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

General references

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.